Neil Hopcroft

[Read to self]

Climate Change, how we can get to carbon zero, by Bianca Nogrady

This was a book I picked up at the Eden Project in the knowledge that I was going to finish Neverwhere while we were in Cornwall.

This is a bit of a weird book, on one level it is a step by step tour of the current situation regarding sustainability and a discussion of some of the technologies that might help us improve that situation. There is a lot of fact. Somehow it remains almost completely without character, there are a couple of moments when you feel like it might actually have been written by a person, but it has the air of an AI written book. I don’t think it was written by an AI, it’s just that the writer saw it more as a piece of homework than a passion.

Despite the lack of character, I persevered with it, mostly because the subject matter is important and having such facts researched and laid out in this way makes them easy to digest.

It has been clear for a while there is a lot of people in the media talking an awful lot about things they don’t really know about because they’ve got some kind of agenda, this book highlights that by ignoring most of those agendas and giving you fact after fact.

If you need to know about sustainability, you probably already know more than is in this book, otherwise you probably are not interested enough to bother reading it. Either way, this is not the book for you, find a book with some passion in it and read that instead. It wasn’t a waste of my time, I walk that razor edge between wanting to do something about sustainability and not really knowing anything about it.