No! Not Heat, that crappy magazine about celebrities (sorry, I just have a thing about celebrity mags and probably celebrities in general!), but the book by George Monbiot. Finished it on the train going up north this week - I think he succeeded in his mission - I was stirred, impressed and deeply worried all at once by his book. Monbiot argues that targets set by governments are not really workable in that they're based on targets that won't achieve what they're set out to achieve. Add to that, the fact that despite what people say, they (we?) don't actually want our governments & representatives to push too hard on these aggressive climate targets.
Despite this, his views seem both incredibly reasonable, and also would bring about the kind of world (at least in Britain) that must be a step forward for the one we have now. His chapters on integrated transport policy and energy policy actually make you excited to think what could be possible if we just put our minds to it.
Heat? Get a copy and see what you think.
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