Pearce picks various items in his home (from broad categories such as clothing, food, technology) and tracks the items through their life cycle. The book begins a bit vague but slowly builds in focus. He includes a variety of items, some of which have positive footprints and others which do not. ...
This book is choc-a-bloc full of facts yet reads like a novel! Never normally one to chose to read non-fiction this was a pleasant surprise. The book was incredibly informative on the benefits and conflicts of manufacture be it for cotton and clothes or computer mice. Not only did this book expan...
Fred Pearce has been writing about climate change for eighteen years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. Where once scientists were concerned about gradual climate change, now more and more of them fear we will soon be dealing with abrupt change resulting from triggering hidden tippin...