Will I love There Is No Planet B?

I really liked There is no planet B as it comes in short sections and is structured around questions which Mike Berners-Lee answers with humour, authenticity, and authority.

His writing is so accessible, clear, and humble as well as playful and practical, which is quite an impressive achievement for a topic like this. He takes a joined-up approach on the various planetary challenges humanity faces, and I particularly loved that a chapter on values, truth, and trust is included, which are too often ignored in books involving science and the environment.

One of the questions in this chapter he answers… show more.

This book has always inspired me and one of the reasons I wrote my own books on climate change. 

What Mike does so brilliantly is take all the problems we are worried about such as climate change, world hunger, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics, pandemics and provide solutions. These solutions are ones that make us all safer, healthier, and wealthier – and are so obvious you will ask yourself why are we not doping them already.

Mike never preaches, instead he shares his insights with humour and warmth. But underneath all of this is a very clear message we only have one… show more.

The most common question I am asked when giving lectures on climate change is “What can I do?”

Mike Berners-Lee’s mission is to answer that question in as comprehensive, comprehensible, and helpful way possible. He provides a handbook of justifications and authoritative insights into addressing “how we can make the transition into a new mode of living that works for us and fits our new context (of climate and environmental change) – a way of operating that won’t smash the place up and will allow us to thrive despite our power.”

The antidote to climate dismay is action,… show more.

Rather than weaving a literary narrative, Berners-Lee's aim is to offer something more practically helpful: a handbook for climate action. It’s essentially the FAQs page to the climate crisis. What is Ocean Acidification and why does it matter? Should I fly? How could one crop save us over half a billion tonnes of CO2e? He‘s done the calculations so we don’t have to.