There Is No Planet B, Updated Edition

Cover
Half-title
Reviews
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
What's New in this Updated Edition?
Introduction to the First Edition
	Welcome to a new era
	A handbook of everything
	When it's all so global, what can I do?
	What values underpin this book?
	What can we aim for?
	Not the last word . . .
1 Food
	How much food energy do we need to eat?
	How much food do we grow worldwide?
	What happens to the food we grow?
	Given the global surplus, why are some people malnourished?
	Why don't more people explode from overeating?
	How many calories do we get from animals?
	How much do animals help with our protein supply?
	Do we need animals for iron, zinc or vitamin A?
	How much of our antibiotics are given to animals?
		What can I do and what can be done?
	Do factory farms make pandemics more likely?
		Yes. It looks very likely that today's farming practices facilitated COVID-19.
	How much deforestation do soya beans cause?
	What's the carbon footprint of agriculture?
	What are the carbon footprints of different foods?
	Should I go veggie or vegan?
	What can shops do about meat and dairy habits?
	What can restaurants do?
	What can farmers and governments do?
	How could one crop save us over half a billion tonnes CO2e?
		What can I do?
		What can shops do?
		What can farmers do?
	Is local food best?
	Where does fish fit in?
	When is a seabass not a seabass?
	How can we sustain our fish?
		What can I do?
		What can shops do?
		What can governments do?
		What can fishermen do?
	What food is wasted, where and how?
	How can we cut the world's waste?
		What can I do?
		What can restaurants do?
		How can shops help us cut waste?
	Why don't supermarkets care more about their waste?
	When food can't be sold or eaten, what should be done with it?
		What can I do?
	How much food goes to biofuel?
	How many farmers does the world need?
	How can new technologies help feed the world?
	How can we produce enough food for 9.7 billion of us in 2050?
	Why do we all need to know our food supply chains?
	What investments are needed into food land and sea?
	Food action summary: What can I do and what can be done?
2 More on Climate and Environment
	What are the 14 things that every politician needs to know about the climate emergency?
	What are the biodiversity stats? And why do they matter?
	What is ocean acidification and why does it matter?
		What's to be done and what can I do?
	How much plastic is there in the world?
	Is fossil fuel better burned or turned into plastic?
3 Energy
	How much do we use?
	How has our use changed over time?
	What do we use it for?
	Where do we get it all from?
	How bad are fossil fuels?
	How much energy comes from the sun?
	Can the sun's energy be harnessed?
	How much solar power could we ever have?
	Which countries have the most sunlight?
	Which countries have the least sun per person?
	What about when the sun isn't shining?
	How useful is wind energy?
	Which countries have the most wind per person?
	Why is sun better than rain?
	Is nuclear nasty?
	Would fusion solve everything?
	Are biofuels bonkers?
	Should we frack?
	Does more renewables mean less fossil fuel?
	What is the catch with energy efficiency?
	Given the catch, what can efficiency do for us?
	Why is cleaning our electricity just the easy part of the transition from fossil fuels?
		How much fossil fuel can 1 kWh of renewable electricity replace?
	How can we keep the fuel in the ground?
	Who has the most fossil fuel and how will they cope?
		What does this mean for a global deal?
	Will we need to take carbon back out of the air?
	Can carbon be offset?
	How much energy are we on track to use in 2100?
	Can enough energy ever be enough?
	Energy solution summary
	Energy: What can I do?
4 Travel and Transport
	How much do we travel today?
	How much travel will we want in the future?
	How many travel miles can we get from a square metre of land?
	How can we sort out urban transport?
	Will shared transport make life better or worse?
	Should I buy an electric car?
	How urgently should I ditch my diesel?
	Could autonomous cars be a disaster? Or brilliant?
	How can we fly in the low carbon world?
	Should I fly?
	Do virtual meetings save energy and carbon?
	How bad are boats? And can they be electrified?
	E-bikes or pedals?
	When might we emigrate to another planet?
5 Growth, Money and Metrics
	Which kinds of growth can be healthy in the Anthropocene?
	Why is GDP such an inadequate metric?
	How do our metrics need to change?
	What metrics do we need to take more note of?
	What metrics do we need to downgrade?
	Can the free market deal with Anthropocene challenges?
	Which is better, the market economy or the planned economy?
	What is trickledown and why is it dangerous?
	Why might wealth distribution matter more than ever?
	How is the world's wealth distributed?
	Why are most Americans so much poorer than most Italians?
	How has wealth distribution been changing?
	When is wealth distributed like the energy in a gas? (And when is it not?)
	How can human wealth become more like the energy in a gas?
		What can governments do?
		What can businesses do?
		What can I do?
	What should we invest in?
	How can these essential investments be funded?
	What can fund managers do?
	Why does the right tax make us better off?
	Do we need a carbon price?
	How expensive will carbon need to become?
	How should I spend my money?
6 People and Work
	Does it all come down to population?
	What can I do to help with population?
	When is a 'job' a good thing?
	How much of a person should come to work?
		What can I do?
	Why would anyone work if they already had a citizen's wage?
	What are my chances of being in prison?
7 Business and Technology
	When is it good that an organisation exists?
	How can businesses think about the world?
	How can a business think systemically?
	What is a science-based target?
	What is so special when science-based targets are applied to the supply chain?
	Do we drive technology growth, or does it drive us?
	How can we take control of technology?
8 Values, Truth and Trust
	What is the evidence base to choose some values over others?
	What values do we need to be the new global cultural norms?
	Can we deliberately change our values?
	What makes our values change?
		How to cultivate the values that we need
			At the personal level
	Is there even such a thing as 'truth' or 'facts'?
	Is 'truth' personal?
	Why is dedication to truth more important than ever?
	What is a culture of truth?
	Is it possible to have a more truthful culture?
	What can I do to promote a culture of truth?
	What can journalists do to promote truth?
	What can politicians do?
	How can I work out who and what to trust?
	What are some bad reasons for placing trust?
	How can I tell whether to trust anything in this book?
9 Thinking Skills for Today's World
	What new ways of thinking do we need in the twenty-first century?
	How can twenty-first century thinking skills be developed?
	Where is religion and spirituality in all this?
10 Protest
	Do we need protest?
	What has been Extinction Rebellion's magic?
	What is the next evolution of protest?
	Should children protest?
11 Big-Picture Summary
	Rising human power has taken us into the Anthropocene
	We have the opportunity to live better than ever
	The low carbon technologies we need are coming along nicely but on their own they won't help
	Anthropocene challenges are global, systemic and inescapably intertwined
	We need to stand further back from the problem and this entails slowing down more of the time
	We need a new system of economics fit for the twenty-first century
	Some types of growth are still healthy but others are not
	We will require globally shared values of respect for all people, for the planet, and for truth
	We humans urgently need to develop our thinking skills and habits in at least eight respects
12 What Can I Do?
	How can I help to create the conditions under which the world that I want to see becomes possible?
	What questions were missing? What answers were wrong?
Appendix: Climate Emergency Basics
	Point 1: A global temperature rise of 2 C looks very risky but 1.5 C much less so
	Point 2: As long as we don't trigger a step change in the climate, temperature rise corresponds roughly with the total amount of carbon we have ever burned
	Point 3: Emissions of carbon dioxide, the most important greenhouse gas, have grown exponentially for 160 years
	Point 4: We have not yet dented that carbon curve
	Point 5: At the current rate of carbon emissions the remaining viable carbon budget for both 1.5 C and 2 C is dwindling quickly - despite some recent good news from the carbon modellers
	Point 6: It takes a long time to put the brakes on
	Point 7: All the fuel that gets dug up gets burned, so it has to stay in the ground instead
	Point 8: Many of the things we might assume will help haven't
	Point 9: The world needs to use less energy
	Point 10: We urgently need a working global agreement to leave the fuel in the ground
	Point 11: We need to manage other gases too
	Point 12: Extracting and burning fossil fuel has to become too expensive, illegal or both
	Point 13: The global deal will need to work for everyone
	Point 14: We need to take carbon back out of the atmosphere
Alphabetical Quick Tour
	Aeroplanes
	Animal feed
	Anthropocene
	Balloon squeezing
	Biodiversity
	Biofuels
	Bullshit
	The Burning Question
	Business
	Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
	Carbon scrubbing (or direct air capture)
	China
	Climate change
	Coal
	Commuting
	Consumerism
	Cycling
	Democracy
	Determinism
	Developed countries
	Diets
	Double-sided photocopying
	Economics
	Education
	Efficiency
	Electric cars
	Emissions
	Energy growth
	Enoughness
	Evolution (of humans)
	Experts
	Exponential growth
	Facts
	Fake news
	Farming
	Fish
	Food system
	Fossil fuel
	Fossil fuel companies
	Fun
	Fracking
	Gas (natural gas)
	Geo engineering
	Global dynamics
	Global governance
	Greed
	Greenwash
	Growth (see also Exponential growth and Energy growth)
	Hair shirts
	How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything
	Human denial
	Human psychology
	Ice
	Individualism tent
	Inequality
	Investment
	IPCC
	Jobs
	Kids (ours)
	Leadership
	Local food
	Maldives
	Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
	Meat and dairy
	Media
	Methane
	Neoliberalism
	Neuroscience
	Nuclear power
	Nuclear fusion
	Ocean acidification
	Oil
	Optimism bias
	Parents
	Personal actions
	Plastic
	Population
	Prison
	Refugees
	Rebound effects
	Renewables
	Rice
	Russia
	Shipping
	Shock
	Solar power
	Soya beans
	Space travel
	Spirituality
	Sticking plasters (band aids)
	Takeaways (takeouts), fast food and ready meals
	Tax
	Technology
	Trickledown
	Truth
	Two degrees
	Value of human life
	Violent death
	Voting
	Waking up
	Waste food
	Wellbeing
Notes on Units
	Power and energy
	Distance
	Greenhouse gas emissions
	Weights
	Stuff I don't use
EndNotes
	What's New in this Updated Edition?
	Introduction
	1 Food
	2 More on Climate and Environment
	3 Energy
	4 Travel and Transport
	5 Growth, Money and Metrics
	6 People and Work
	7 Business and Technology
	8 Values, Truth and Trust
	9 Thinking Skills for Today's World
	Appendix: Climate Emergency Basics
	Alphabetical Quick Tour
	Notes on Units
Index