10 Billion is cleverly set. I feel it’s wrong to call it a book, but also wrong to call it something else. For it is more like a survival guide or a piece of text which forces your to change your way of life and rethink.The “book’s” layout is one to be highly commended on. As it is packed with facts, reading paragraph after paragraph would of bored the most interested reader, however, Emmott set it with photographs and simple sentences, sometimes one sentence per page which ironically wastes paper but also makes the statement bold and automatically makes the reader stop and muddle over it.I’m personally very pro trying to help the environment, but this book just makes me realise how much of a crisis we really are in.“ The loss of ecosystem services poses a very real threat to our survival” My physics teacher read this book as well, and once we discussed it he said to me: ” The Earth does not need protection, it always evolves and lives on, its us who are in real danger”Overall this book is a spectacular eye opener, one my review probably is not giving justice. Its not a book which you would want to read when stuck in doors but a real book which you read to mature and understand our world today. This is a timely wake-up call to everyone on Earth. Despite the pessimistic ending and waste of pages all over the book, it pretty much summarizes a lot of the thoughts the scientists have been thinking. We are definitely going to see war in the next century and observe a decline in population, but of course, we will attempt at all cost to technologize out of it as we still can. Let's instill in each other some hope however forlorn the outlook is. Maybe someday we will succeed. Maybe.
What do You think about 10 Billion (2013)?
Scary - which it needs to be - but its audience will be those already scared.
—David
Stephen Emmott is a pragmatist after my own heart.
—Kayla
Insightful and demotivating at the same time.
—celtichoy
