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I first encountered George Monbiot on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. His soliloquy about radical environmentalism excited me so much I bought this book. I have to admit that although many of the subjects discussed within the 268 pages interested me, I never got the same feeling of excitement whi...
This is a horribly disappointing book. There is no science, just biographical anecdotes of the over glorified and egotistical boy scout George Monbiot.Both, "[b:Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators|2288031|Where the Wild Things Were Life...
This book was only sort of what I was expecting. I would have liked a lot more detail on how governments and private groups are successfully rewilding areas in the UK, Europe and the US, since those seemed to be the author's main frames of reference. The author eventually got into the heart of the...
I read Monbiot's book Heat, in which he sets out a plan of how the UK could and should repond to human-made climate change by cutting carbon emissions by 90%, in 2010. I was convinced, but not optimistic; the changes we need to make are radical; the restructuring in transport for example, would be d...
The most important teaching in these pages is that there is no coming technofix for climate change: the tech is here, we have the tech, and further developments will only be made if economic pressure throws the awesome power of human ingenuity behind making them. What is needed to create that pressu...
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