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Fixing the Planet: An Overview for Optimists and Activists [Paperback / softback]

  • Format: Paperback / softback, 384 pages, height x width: 200x150 mm
  • Pub. Date: 07-Jul-2022
  • Publisher: September Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1914613112
  • ISBN-13: 9781914613111
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 384 pages, height x width: 200x150 mm
  • Pub. Date: 07-Jul-2022
  • Publisher: September Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1914613112
  • ISBN-13: 9781914613111
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Knowledge is power. Get informed and choose action overdespair.

Everythingyou need to know about the earth and the life it supports – right now. From thechallenges we face with global environmental, health, poverty, equality,technological, political and justice issues to the pioneering places and peoplemaking a difference to our future.

Includes40 simple ways to support change!

‘While the hour is late, the future remains ours to make.This hugely enjoyable book is a powerful introduction to the way things are andthe way things can be. Keep it by your bed.’ Tim Smit, co-founder The EdenProject

‘This book gives you all the information anyone could wantabout the state of the world and how to save it. Michael Norton’s grippingread, filled with a wealth of facts, will arm you in any discussion, teenagersand adult alike who want to make the case for rescuing the planet. This willgive you hope for what can still be done, if we all act now.’ Polly Toynbee,Guardian

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'This book gives you all the information anyone could want about the state of the world and how to save it. Michael Norton's gripping read, filled with a wealth of facts, will arm you in any discussion, teenagers and adult alike who want to make the case for rescuing the planet. This will give you hope for what can still be done, if we all act now' Polly Toynbee, Guardian 'A fantastic panorama of how to right the wrongs of the world, packed full of examples of everyday people taking action and making change every day. If you ever doubted you could make a difference - read this and you'll know you can!' Dawn Austwick, former CEO, National Lottery Community Fund 'Humankind's body politic is being ravaged by an advanced form of necrotising fasciitis called "profit maximising neoliberalism". But the antibodies we need to see off this wasting disease are getting stronger by the day - as Fixing the Planet so eloquently makes clear' Jonathon Porritt, co-founder Forum for the Future 'A wonderfully accessible encyclopaedia of facts, examples and inspirations that can serve as an antidote to the fatalism that is perhaps our biggest risk today' Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, University College London 'This is BRILLIANT!' Sharla-Jaye Duncan, founder The Intrapreneurs Club 'We are standing on the edge of an industrial revolution so great in all aspects; in energy, in transport, in food and farming and within society itself, that one hundred years from now they will describe this moment as a liberation. This book is a powerful introduction to the way things were and the way things can be. Keep it by your bed' Tim Smit, founder of The Eden Project

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The guide to the greatest problems facing our planet today - from environmental to humanitarian, technological to economic, small scale to global With details on pioneers making a difference and causing changes and 40 distinct ideas for engagement
Introduction 6(3)
A message from the next generation 9(2)
Towards a climate crisis
01 Our warming world
11(10)
02 Our carbon footprint
21(8)
03 Overshooting the Earth's capacity
29(8)
04 Eating for the planet
37(8)
The natural world
05 Trees of life
45(10)
06 Where have all the species gone?
55(10)
07 Save our soil
65(10)
08 Our oceans
75(10)
Our polluted world
09 I want clean air
85(8)
10 Clean water, please
93(8)
11 Nuclear waste and nuclear accidents
101(10)
12 Death by chemicals
111(10)
13 The nitrogen bomb
121(8)
The waste we create
14 Drowning in plastic
129(10)
15 Zero waste
139(8)
16 The food we don't eat
147(8)
People on the planet
17 Too many people in the world?
155(8)
18 Where will we all be living?
163(8)
19 Where have all the jobs gone?
171(8)
20 Displaced and trafficked people
179(10)
Our wellbeing
21 Our food is killing us
189(8)
22 I am an addict
197(8)
23 The spread of disease
205(10)
24 The lottery of life
215(8)
25 Why are we so unhappy?
223(8)
Our rights and responsibilities
26 Dictatorship and democracy
231(8)
27 Truth and lies
239(10)
28 Algorithms rule the world
249(10)
29 Human wrongs and human rights
259(8)
30 Women hold up half the sky
267(10)
31 Crime and punishment
277(10)
Forces of destruction
32 A world of terror
287(10)
33 A world at war
297(10)
34 Nuclear weapons
307(10)
Resources for good?
35 Inequality in the world
317(10)
36 Tax injustice
327(8)
37 Winner takes all
335(8)
38 Corruption and kleptocracy
343(8)
39 Can we end world poverty?
351(10)
40 Business doing better
361(9)
In the beginning... 370(4)
... And in the end 374(4)
Yes we will 378(5)
Acknowledgements 383(1)
About the author 384
Michael Norton is a social entrepreneur who creates projects that provide innovative approaches to solving problems in society and the world. He has created village libraries in Asia, helped develop an international network of crisis helplines for children, developed projects which promote financial literacy for young people, mental well-being of adolescents, collecting and cooking surplus food, environmental awareness and action, and much more. He is a professor at the China Global Philanthropy Institute in Shenzhen, winner of the 2014 UK Charity Award for lifetime achievement and was awarded an OBE in 1998 for services to the voluntary sector.