Hope in Hell
Of all the books I’ve written since 1984, this one has been the hardest. Confronting today’s Climate Emergency is both challenging (from a “keeping up to date” perspective) and personally very painful – simply because we’ve left everything so late.
You can’t just stay hopeful if the science tells us it’s already too late to stop runaway climate change. But happily, that’s not the case: solutions abound on every front, and if deployed fast enough and at the right scale could still prevent any runaway nightmare.
But it won’t stay ‘not too late’ much longer. Which is what makes this the decisive decade. Hope in Hell was published in 2020 and things have got a lot worse since then. (I blog about this all the time!)
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Other Books
As above, I’ve written quite a lot of books over the years! Unfortunately, most of them are out of print, but you can still get hold of them.
If you want to avoid the dreaded Amazon, I have a few copies of most of these at home, which I’d be only be too happy to find a better use for than sitting there in a great big box! Just write to me at 9 Lypiatt Terrace, Cheltenham, GL50 2SX with your name and address and stick £10 in the envelope to cover postage and packing, with anything left over going to a contribution to the various causes I support.
- The World We Made (2013)
My most visionary book, summoning up an outline of what a genuinely just and sustainable world could look like in 2050. - Capitalism As If The World Matters (2005 & 2007)
Could capitalism ever deliver that kind of world? Well, absolutely not this version of capitalism, but somehow we have to make a radically different kind of capitalism work. - Save the Earth (1992)
The big one – done for the Earth Summit in 1992, supporting the work of Friends of the Earth – which sold more than a million copies. - Where on Earth Are We Going (1990)
I wrote this to accompany a major BBC TV series (of the same name) – it’s full of amazing stories of people and communities “doing the hard yards”. - Playing Safe: Science and the Environment (2000)
This covered off all the gritty controversies of the day – nuclear power, GM, climate change and so on. - Seeing Green’: The Politics of Ecology (1984)
The original one! More than a little outdated these days, but I love the idea that both Caroline Lucas and Ed Davey have said it was “Seeing Green” that got them into politics!
