![]() ![]() While this may be true, the rate of innovation of sustainable technologies offers the prospect that they may still play a bigger part though we may be wise to discount this in our present state. On technology, he maintains that most of the tools required to address the challenges we face are already at our disposal. There is plenty here to help us as individuals to understand how we might follow such a path, but he stops at offering solutions to the intractable problems of getting effective global cooperation, hoping, one assumes, that people can lead their own governments. The missing piece is chiefly our ability to adjust our mindsets and lifestyles to a less consumerist, more relaxed way. In the final chapters he reprises his beliefs in the values underpinning the changes he thinks are required for humanity to survive the Anthropocene era it has created. ![]() For those of us who care about our planet and the environment. Just as good as 'There is no planet B', and I wish he had written more books. Mike Berners-Lee kept me reading every page (I admittingly thought I would be bored by this one). ![]() In his discussions of all the topics from climate change to energy, transport, work, economics and society, he strives for a politically neutral stance frequently betrayed by his egalitarian instincts. It is oftentimes exhausting as there is so much work to do, but exposing it is one of the first steps. There are plenty of facts, many presented in accessible graphics. In what Berners-Lee describes as a handbook, most of the writing takes the form of answers to a host of questions about the topics. ![]()
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