Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Monbiot's Heat
This is one of my two really essential non-fiction reads this year. George Monbiot, is the only columnist I read infallibly every week. He explores environmental issues tirelessly, using a sort of armchair private detective approach to discover shocking hypocrisies and abuses.
In this book he argues coherently and plausibly that the UK needs to make a 90% cut in CO2 emissions by 2030, and that such a cut is possible without making significant cultural changes.
These 215 pages of reasoned honest argument, really changed my feelings about climate change. I was under the mistaken impression that due to the Kazzoom-Brookes Postulate, operating at both micro and macro-economic scales, we simply couldn't cut down our use of CO2. Monbiot uses straightforward calculations to show that with a combination of personal and governmental commitment, we can do it.
There's a great accompanying website, and some extracts from the Guardian, if you'd like a taster before you dig in.
In this book he argues coherently and plausibly that the UK needs to make a 90% cut in CO2 emissions by 2030, and that such a cut is possible without making significant cultural changes.
These 215 pages of reasoned honest argument, really changed my feelings about climate change. I was under the mistaken impression that due to the Kazzoom-Brookes Postulate, operating at both micro and macro-economic scales, we simply couldn't cut down our use of CO2. Monbiot uses straightforward calculations to show that with a combination of personal and governmental commitment, we can do it.
There's a great accompanying website, and some extracts from the Guardian, if you'd like a taster before you dig in.
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