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Books : Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes from
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Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes from by: Fred Pearce List Price: £12.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.09 You Save: £3.90 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781905811106 ISBN: 1905811101 Label: Eden Project Books Manufacturer: Eden Project Books Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: February 25, 2008 Publisher: Eden Project Books Studio: Eden Project Books Sales Rank: 93745 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The true cost of over-consumptionMr Pearce's book is a well-researched work which documents not only the environmental costs of our current Western lifestyles but also the associated social (and to a lesser extent) economic costs. As the other reviewer point out, the author covers much ground; from writing about the prawn supply route from Bangladeshi prawn farms to English curry house tables, to a chapter about how metals vital to the operation of mobile phones are extracted from mines run by Congolese warlords. The book is certainly wide-ranging. I'm not in a position to say if it is comprehensive but detailed it was! I enjoyed the book and recommend it to anyone wanting to know more about the stories behind our lifestyles and how, often and regrettably, cheap ... Read More: Rating:  - Scattergun approach only just pays off.I have enjoyed previous books by Fred Pearce, especially "When the rivers run dry". This book is a mish mash affair, the author dotting around the world trying to find the background to where all that makes up his "stuff" comes from. Some of the stories are exteremely thought provoking - watch out for an impending world banana shortage by the way - and I learnt a lot about eco related issues that I hadn't seen anywhere else, but the book itself somehow left me a bit cold. It appears to be a hurriedly put together collection of shorter pieces - at one stage the same bits of information are repeated on consecutive pages, and the M & S brand is Blue Harbour, not Blue Horizon. These are minor quibbles but serve to undermine the message being put ... Read More: |
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