There is No Plan(et) B : a Handbook for the Make or Break Years.
Berners-Lee, Mike,
There is No Plan(et) B : a Handbook for the Make or Break Years. There is no Planet B There is no Plan B - xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Food -- More on climate and environment -- Energy -- Travel and transport -- Growth, money and metrics -- People and work -- Business and technology -- Values, truth and trust -- Conclusion: thinking skills for today's world.
"Almost every year since records began, our species has had more energy at its disposal than it had the year before. For the last 50 years, the growth rate has averaged 2.4% per year, more than tripling in total over that time. For the century before that it was more like 1% per year, and as we go back through history, the growth rate looks lower still but nevertheless positive, give or take the odd blip. We have been getting continually more powerful, not just by growing our energy supply, but by using it with ever more efficiency and inventiveness. In doing so, we have been increasingly affecting our world, through a mixture of accident and design. The restorative powers of our planet, meanwhile, have remained broadly the same, so the balance of power has been shifting-- and it has now tipped. Throughout history, the dominant cultures have treated the planet as a big and robust place, compared to everything we could throw at it--and that approach has not, generally speaking, come back to bite us."--
ASLI Choice Award
9781108424240 1108424244 9781108439589 1108439586
2018049322
GBB8M6280 bnb
019157615 Uk
Power resources.
Power resources--Environmental aspects.
Energy consumption.
Energy consumption--Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes.
Pollution.
Environmental protection.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science.
Climatic changes.
Energy consumption.
Energy consumption--Environmental aspects.
Environmental protection.
Pollution.
Power resources.
Power resources--Environmental aspects.
TJ163.2 / .B4745 2019
363.7
There is No Plan(et) B : a Handbook for the Make or Break Years. There is no Planet B There is no Plan B - xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Food -- More on climate and environment -- Energy -- Travel and transport -- Growth, money and metrics -- People and work -- Business and technology -- Values, truth and trust -- Conclusion: thinking skills for today's world.
"Almost every year since records began, our species has had more energy at its disposal than it had the year before. For the last 50 years, the growth rate has averaged 2.4% per year, more than tripling in total over that time. For the century before that it was more like 1% per year, and as we go back through history, the growth rate looks lower still but nevertheless positive, give or take the odd blip. We have been getting continually more powerful, not just by growing our energy supply, but by using it with ever more efficiency and inventiveness. In doing so, we have been increasingly affecting our world, through a mixture of accident and design. The restorative powers of our planet, meanwhile, have remained broadly the same, so the balance of power has been shifting-- and it has now tipped. Throughout history, the dominant cultures have treated the planet as a big and robust place, compared to everything we could throw at it--and that approach has not, generally speaking, come back to bite us."--
ASLI Choice Award
9781108424240 1108424244 9781108439589 1108439586
2018049322
GBB8M6280 bnb
019157615 Uk
Power resources.
Power resources--Environmental aspects.
Energy consumption.
Energy consumption--Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes.
Pollution.
Environmental protection.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science.
Climatic changes.
Energy consumption.
Energy consumption--Environmental aspects.
Environmental protection.
Pollution.
Power resources.
Power resources--Environmental aspects.
TJ163.2 / .B4745 2019
363.7