Saving the Planet Without the Bullsh*t What They Don’t Tell You About the Climate Crisis

by Razzouk, Assaad

• ISBN13: 9781838954659
• ISBN10: 1838954651
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-10-17
• Publisher: Atlantic Books

Summary

'Eye-popping and essential' - Rowan Hooper, author, Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity

Have you heard that you should plant trees to save the planet? Or buy carbon offsets when you fly? Or recycle plastic? Go vegan? Or not have children? What if all these actions were a distraction, no matter how well-intentioned?

In this provocative manifesto, Assaad Razzouk shows that for too long our ideas about what's best for the environment have been unfocused and distracted, trying to go in too many directions and concentrating on individual behavior.

While some of these things can be useful, they are dwarfed by one big thing that simply has to happen very soon if we're to avoid major environmental breakdown: curtailing the activities of the fossil fuel industry.

Full of counter-intuitive statistics and positive suggestions for individual and collective action, this ingenious book will change how you view the climate crisis.

Author Biography

Assaad Razzouk is a Lebanese-British clean energy entrepreneur, author, podcaster and commentator. He co-founded and runs a clean energy company headquartered in Singapore, financing, building and operating renewable energy projects in Asia; as well as a not-for-profit Singapore start-up, digitizing and democratizing renewable energy. With his hands-on experience in renewable energy combined with his other roles, Assaad is a high-profile thought leader on climate change, clean energy and the UN climate talks with several hundred thousand followers on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Plastic Is Your New Diet
Who Put Palm Oil in My Toothpaste?
The Fashion Show at the End of the World
Your Cat Doesn’t Need to Eat Fish
Your Fresh Air Is Asphyxiating You
We Don’t Have Time to Overthrow Capitalism
Hydrogen Makes Up 70 Per Cent of the Universe; I Didn’t Know That Either
Nuclear Power Is So Over
Stinky Gas
Never Buy Carbon Offsets for Anything, Especially Your Car Gasoline
Please Don’t Plant Trees
Have as Many Babies as You Like
Ride a Bicycle, Save the World
Fly Without Guilt
A Luxury Cruise Liner Is a Stinking Floating Dumpster
The Nasty Ninety
The Social Media Axis of Evil
Dial Down That Air Conditioning, But Not Too Much
Going Vegan to Go Green? Don’t Bother
Drive Electric Shamelessly – the Green Energy Revolution Is Here
Green Bonds Do More Harm Than Good
Tinker, Lawyer, Banker, Fry
The ESG Con
Don’t Worry (At All) About Bitcoin’s Energy Use
Love Thy Insect
The Royal Baby Versus Biodiversity
Sue the Bastards
It’s Raining Renewable Energy
Epilogue
Sources
Index