"There Is No Planet B" - Mike Berners Lee
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- On 27 February 2019, Mike Berners-Lee presented his newest book, "There Is No Planet B", to the Oxford Climate Society. We're delighted to share his full talk with you now!
*About the book: *
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does it all come down to population? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do?
Fortunately, Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is practical and even enjoyable. There is No Planet B maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. For the first time you'll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think. This book will shock you, surprise you - and then make you laugh. And you'll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this - our only - planet.
*About the author: *
Mike Berners-Lee consults, thinks, writes and researches on sustainability and responses to 21st century challenges. This is his third book.
About his first book, How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint Of Everything, Bill Bryson wrote “I can’t think of the last time I read a book that was more fascinating, and useful and enjoyable all at the same time”
His second book, The Burning Question, co-written with Duncan Clark, explores the big picture on climate change and the underlying global dynamics, asking what mix of politics, economics, psychology and technology are really required to deal with the problem. Al Gore described it as “Fascinating, important and highly recommended” and was among MPs’ top ten summer reads.
Mike is the founder of Small World Consulting, an associate company of Lancaster University, which works with organisations from tech giants to supermarkets. Small World is a leader in the field of carbon metrics and their use.
He is a professor at Lancaster University’s Institute for Social Futures, where his research includes sustainable food systems and carbon metrics. He co-ordinates the Global Futures event series which are freely open to all and explore big global challenges in multidisciplinary ways.
We all live like science will find a way to whisk us away to Planet B once we've trashed this one.
Lemmings!
I appreciate your recommendations to work on our thought pattern. Always thinking about the future.
But am kind of worried with the controversy that surrounds the climate change idea. Young activist while be working had to fight against climate change, discourage fossil fuels but world figures are advocating for fossil drilling.
I joined the Ecology Party in 1981 and we subsequently changed the name to Green Party at our national conference.
Sadly in all those years the problems have got worst and economists, politicians and the mass media still demand ever increasing levels of consumer consumption and GDP growth. So long as that crazy, uncaring, and unsustainable, economic model, along with global population growth, continue little will improve and the situation with sadly get worse.
Great presentation! I wish I could have a proper look at the charts though.
OPEN YOUR EYES AND
SEE!!!
I like the way Mike is putting together data from different areas and multiple disciplines. The problem i have, as with many other experts with solutions, is there is a lot of "if we" and "we need to". For a start, i see precious little "we" in my observation of modern life! Well, certainly not here in the UK. Also, it all depends on a large percentage of the human population changing our behaviour. Something i'm very sceptical of... Also there is the problem of human population together with the effect that modern agricultural practices have on the local ecosystem, specifically the soil: "Agricultural Intensification and Ecosystem Properties" - P. A. Matson, et al. Though there are possible sustainable solutions to this, it still represents a big challenge given the other stresses and challenges modern civilization faces.
90% of people do whatever their friends/peers do. This does mean that you only have to persuade 10% of the people to change their ways and everyone else witll follow. Still very difficult, but that effect is powerful in both directions. At the moment it prevents change, but it also means that norms can flip really quickly.
Nearly everyone changes their ways quite significantly once they genuinely understand the issue and have internalised it, but it's tricky getting enough people to that point.
@@xxwookey I think you are way too optimistic...even in one specific country there are lots of different areas of a society, with different ideas about the world and their specific lifestyles. A lot of different income-levels, educational and social backgrounds. The main focus of politicians nowadays is to separate these different groups of society and play them against each other, to enable themselves to profit from the conflicts they create. So if there is that much variety and different levels of understanding inside one society/country, how are you planning to do the necessary changes on a global level? I am not a pessimist, but it seems to be quite impossible.
"On 27 March 2019, Mike Berners-Lee presented his newest book...". hm. something seems off. has oxford invented time travel? ;-P
Good point! That was of course meant to be February, we've changed it now - thanks for pointing it out to us. :)
You're wrong Mike, there is a planet B, in fact the universe is full of planet B's, trouble is we're gonna have to ransack this planet's resources to find it, them :)
You can't get there, silly.
@@washichurehab4573 Oh yes you can, its just gonna take a while :)
@@jamesohara4295Just.. no.
Revelation 21:1(NKJV)-21 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
I know it's been a year ago.
But I can't stand religious people writing comments on Scientific Videos.
May Thor help you.😅🗯️
@@Seychelles-10. ua-cam.com/video/hVCVt-dvVOc/v-deo.html
Pretty terrible that he justifies air travel at the end....no like for you.
"If we're careful" - who knows what joys technology will bring? He was talking about dreaming of the future.
The climate hasn't change.