There Is No Planet B

By Mike Berners-Lee (2019)

The book explores the major environmental issues facing our planet and crunches the numbers to help explain which are humanities biggest problems, and what can be done about them. Berners-Lee is a sustainability consultant and a Professor at the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University.

‘There Is no Planet B’ is part book, part compendium of all the questions you can think of surrounding sustainability and carbon emissions with respect to food, travel, energy, and our daily lives. Berners-Lee distils the data, compares and contrasts the solutions, and provides suggestions as to how we help create a more sustainable economy.

I found his detailed understanding of food supply chains from ‘field to fork’ particularly enlightening with details on production, processing, transport, and consumption of calories globally and at the local level. He also presents useful insights into how businesses can transform their operations and integrate sustainability into their thinking with interesting examples from his consultancy work.

A great book which will answer many of your climate change queries - ‘There Is No Planet B’ certainly provides food for thought and I found it extremely useful in piecing together a better understanding of how agriculture moves towards net-zero.

*Book cover credit: Andrew Ward

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