Confessions Of An Eco Sinner: Travels to find where my stuff comes from [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Pearce, Fred

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ISBN 10: 1905811101 ISBN 13: 9781905811106

Casa editrice: Eden Project Books, 2008

Riassunto

Like many of us, Fred Pearce works hard from a city base, cares for his family and tries fitfully to do his bit for the planet. But travelling across the world to track his personal 'footprint', he finds himself questioning an extraordinary number of accepted truths. Perhaps his well-intentioned efforts are not so good after all. Should Kenyan green beans go right back on his shopping list? Should he stop campaigning for a clean coastline and start shouting, 'Save wildlife, sh** on the beach'? While he's at it, should he be cheering for Bangladeshi sweatshops too? In search of the source of the cotton in his shirt, the prawns in his curry and the people who grew, mined or made all his stuff, Fred travels from rainforest to desert, up mountains and down mines, from oil field to shanty town to brothel. Yes, he finds squalor and despair. But also he finds good things in surprising places and huge opportunities just waiting to be seized. This compelling story of Fred's travels challenges a range of green assumptions, moving green thinking on to a new, more sophisticated plane.

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Recensione:

"This is a splendid book and will do much good to counteract the comfortable hypocrisy of urban and suburban greens who pretend to 'save the earth' while carrying on business as usual. Fred Pearce goes out and sees the world as well as thinking and writing about it; he is one of the few that understand the Earth as it really is and we must listen to him." (James Lovelock, author of THE REVENGE OF GAIA)

"Pearce shows us how our greed, and our wilful blindness, are ruining the world in faraway places . . . An excellent book." (Guardian)

"Sometimes frightening, always enlightening, it will teach you more about other people's lives than you ever thought possible." (New Scientist)

"Beguiling . . . honest and revealing . . . optimistic . . . A big book for big problems." (Country Living)

"Follow in his global footprints as you read this compelling, thoughtful, provocative and utterly fascinating book." (CHOICE magazine)

Descrizione del libro:

Acclaimed veteran science writer travels from the market down his street to the ends of the earth in search of the true story behind all his stuff and what his 'footprint' really means.

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• Editore: Eden Project Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1905811101
• ISBN 13: 9781905811106
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400