How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything

Mike Berners-Lee
3.91
2,868 ratings 365 reviews
From a text message to a war, from a Valentine's rose to a flight or even having a child, How Bad are Bananas? gives us the carbon answers we need and provides plenty of revelations. By talking through a hundred or so items, Mike Berners-Lee sets out to give us a carbon instinct for the footprint of literally anything we do, buy and think about. He helps us pick our battles by laying out the orders of magnitude. The book ranges from the everyday (foods, books, plastic bags, bikes, flights, baths - ) and the global (deforestation, data centres, rice production, the World Cup, volcanoes, - ) Be warned, some of the things you thought you knew about green living may be about to be turned on their head. Never preachy but packed full of information and always entertaining.
Genres: NonfictionScienceEnvironmentSustainabilityClimate ChangeFoodNaturePoliticsEcologyReference
256 Pages

Community Reviews:

5 star
763 (27%)
4 star
1258 (44%)
3 star
695 (24%)
2 star
130 (5%)
1 star
22 (1%)

Readers also enjoyed

Other books by Mike Berners-Lee

Lists with this book

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
Love in Infant Monkeys
Bananas
178 books21 voters
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Best Climate Change Books
285 books164 voters
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
Effective Altruism Books
261 books154 voters