The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change
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The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is the official companion volume to the Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast from around the world on July 7, 2007. The book presents 77 essential skills for stopping climate change--and for living through it. It is a fun, compelling, and sly deconstruction of a survival guide (think Boy Scouts of America crossed with WorldChanging atop the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook) that offers equal parts tongue-in-cheek suggestions, practical advice, factual information, and bluesky dreaming of ways to save the world. Each skill is presented on a spread featuring a bright, full-color instructional illustration, a brief introduction to the skill and its core ideas, a set of instructions, spin-off ideas, and scientific and environmental facts. The book also includes a resource guide that provides useful resources for the eco-conscious reader.
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F U N N Y.......C O M P E L L I N G..,,...E S S E N T I A L !.!.!.!.!
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DO YOURSELF, (AND EVERYONE ELSE ON EARTH), A FAVOUR....B U Y....
T H I S....B O O K....! Utilize everything you can from and in it,
and follow, (please!), at least one, (and hopefully more!) of its
many great tips.
This is a very easy book to read. It is even, (yes!), actually FUN
TO READ, in many parts. I mean, let's face it....Global Warming is
a VERY scary subject. Scarier than any other disaster imaginable,
really. For example, take disasters depicted in movies. I mean, if
you are, really, in the midst of an equivalent to "The Towering In-
ferno", you have an admittedly big problem: getting out of the build-....but after that, you're OK. If you're in an "Earthquake" zone,
it's scary...but find a way out of the city, or earthquake area, and
you're OK! The same is true with an "Airplane!" disaster....find
SOME way to land, or get out of, the stricken airplane craft, and you
may be shaken for a while, but you'll be OK soon. "The Killer Bees"?
VERY scary, indeed. But I have heard that there was an experiment
to give the killer bees a weakening disease...myasthenia gravis....so
the killer bees would be killed. Unfortunately, that didn't work --
but I have suggested to the Interior Department that they try to give
these bees an even MORE debilitating ailment...ALS, (or "Lou Gehrig's
disease.) With medication, people with Myasthenia Gravis have been
able to live long and productive lives.....but not so, (yet, anyway),
with ALS. I haven't received any message back from the Interior
Department....I'll try them again, soon. But, in any event, killer
bees haven't killed everyone in any town yet, (that I have heard), &
the possibility is always there, to just escape them, (at least tem-
porarily), by leaving town.
But what do you do when the "town" one is speaking of is the ENTIRE
PLANET? One COULD imagine going to another planet, (and just such a
possibilty is, in fact, discussed....with tongue firmly in cheek)...
by David de Rothschild, in his "IF ALL ELSE FAILS" section, at the
very back of this book -- along with such other things as "Harvest The Clouds", "Learn To Barter" Barter", "Evolve", "Buy A Camel", "Beat
The Heat", "Learn to Barter", "Start A Menagerie", and "Build A Floating House", (hmmmm....has he ever heard of "Residensea", also known
as "The World", a floating luxury condominum which could be used for
just this purpose? Does he have an apartment or two there? If not,
I definitely suggest he do so...for, if worst comes to worst, the
"World" is going to need forward-thinking people like Mr. De Roths-
child in it! Arnold Schwartzenneger, governor of California, is
rumoured to have 13 apartments on "The World", presumably for
friends and extended family, as well as for himself and his own fami-
ly....)
Apartments on "The Residensea" START at one million dollars, and I
believe by this time, all of them are sold. I have also posed the
possibility of using such a ship as the "Residensea" as a last-ditch
defense against global warming to some experts...who said such a
ship would probably be too flimsy to withstand massive ocean
currents, anyway. (Still, if one has the money, it's definitely a
thing to look into, in case these experts might be wrong, and/or if
they are now building other ships to accomodate the, er...overflow
....) However, along with the rest of this book, David de Roths-
child's small, but chilling "If All Else Fails" section, at the
back of his book, (clearly marked with a red-and-white striped bord-
er), is written with a deft pen, and clever, witty words, THAT MAKE
THE READER WANT TO KEEP READING EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK, NO MATTER
HOW AWFUL ARE THE EVENTS HE DESCRIBES!
This is definitely one big attribute of this book. Reading of things
people are now doing to increase global warming, and of other things
which we can, (and really should) be doing, to keep it at bay -- or
even reverse it -- could be pretty terrifying, or at the very least,
pretty boring stuff. Not so here! With an optimistic, (but also,
totally realistic) style, sparked with humour and enormous amounts of
common sense, this book is, as mentioned, fun (or almost fun) to read!
The illustrations by WILLIAM VAN RODEN enter into the spirit of this
book perfectly. They are realistically drawn, and the experessions of
the people depicted are rarely actually smiling, but rarely actually
unhappy, either. I guess most people depicted have a PURPOSEFUL ex-
pression on their faces. They seem to KNOW they are doing sometimes
difficult things, but the RIGHT things. People of all ages, genders,
racial and political groups are also depicted -- from the older black
gentleman, in shirt and tie, blissfully riding a bike (backwards????),
on page 75, to a young white hippie, complete with Mohawk hairdo,
jeans and tatoo, shown thoughtfully looking at his collection of organ-
ic labels. Global warming is obviously EVERYONE's problem, since we
all live on Planet Earth!
More immediate, (and practical) solutions, such as "Say No To Styrofoam", "Replace A Lightbulb", "Bank Online", "Convince A Skeptic", "Ride A Bike", and many others, are presented in the front section of this book. Each topic is not only discussed in detail, but is given ratings for the amounts of 'Cost', 'Time', 'Impact', and
'Effort', they will require and/or give.
On the bottom of most pages, (and also within the text of a few of the
pages), are internet links to the topic on that page. There is also a nice section, in the back of the book, entitled "RESOURCES", with even more web addresses, for specific subjects. The Introduction, (in the
front of the book, of course!), gives a concise description of what
global warming is, and what it is doing to the planet we all, at present, live on. The FORWARD, by ROB REINER, (yes, THAT Rob Reiner),
introduces the organization LIVE EARTH, (whose offical handbook, this
book is), and also S.O.S., (SAVE OUR SELVES)...an allied organization,
as well as giving a broad outline of what the book itself is about.
There are 87 suggested activities in this book, to help stop or turn
back, global warming. 10 of these are near the very beginning of the book, in a short list entitled, "10 Easy Steps To Help Stop Global
Warming", (adapted from Adventure Ecology's Top 10 For The Planet) These are easy, common-sense things, like "Bring Your Own Mug", and "Shop
Locally." Common sense pervades this book -- and it's no wonder that
David de Rothschild, author of this book, is the founder of Adventure
Ecology!
The main section, consisting of 67 other ideas, some difficult to do, some quite simple and easy to do. The remaining 10, in the back, highlighted "If All Else Fails" section, range from the difficult ("Mine A Landfill"), to the the ridiculous, (but at the same time, practical), such as "Evolve", (a neat trick if you can do it....but I have yet to hear of anyone who could evolve voluntairily! Evolution of anything usually takes MILLIONS of years.
Well, make that, the PHYSICAL evolution of living things takes years and years. The MENTAL evolution of people on this planet need not take so long. Our ATTITUDES towards this planet, and our ability to continue to live on it, as we have done, needs to change. Above all, we have GOT to realize there IS such a problem as GLOBAL WARMING....and that it is happening NOW. Also, we must realize that it is NOT necessarily fatal for life on this planet, as we know it...IF we recognize it, and IF we ALL do something ...or as many things, as we can, to stop it. THE LIVE EARTH GLOBAL WARMING SURVIVAL HANDBOOK, by DAVID DE ROTHSCHILD shows 87 ways to help save the planet....surely, everyone can pick out at LEAST one or two, (and hopefully more), to practice?
"SAVE OUR SELVES" (SOS), is NOT a selfish motto. It is a motto of SURVIVAL FOR EVERYBODY ON THIS PLANET, AND FOR GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE, WHO WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET, TO COME......
I someomehow think back, now, on an early disaster movie, "On The Beach".
It's interesting for me to think back now, that when our family first saw it, my father -- in a jovial mood -- decided that we should see it on January 1st! I couldn't understand why he would want to see such a movie on January 1st, but later discovered why... I thought he knew, (as I did), that it was about the aftermath of a nuclear war. But, from the title, "On The Beach", he assertained that it was a sort of Annette Funicello/Frankie Avalon type movie, only with the older actors of Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner! Well, seeing the movie was, I guess, a shock to him. (If I had known what he believed the movie to be, I would have corrected it....but I thought he knew, so I didn't say anything). The interesting thing is, there were some other people in the movie theatre too. Surely, ALL of them couldn't have expected a "beach" movie? Were they there as sort of tempting fate? Was it a sort of
"sticking out their tongues" at the possible reality, then, of nuclear war?
Nuclear war really COULD have happened. Especially later, during the Kennedy administration. But brave people fought it, and no nuclear war occurred. It can be the same with the present danger of global warming: the worst need not happen, if we all do SOMETHING, OR THINGS, to stop it.
You need no other book, in my opinion, than this one by David de Rothschild, to get you started, and involved. Buy one copy for yourself, and buy others as gifts!
In "ON THE BEACH", the very last frames of the movie are unforgettable. All the people are gone, but a sign remains. It reads:
'......THERE___IS___STILL___TIME___BROTHER.....'
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Nonsense book
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A really nonsense book that tries to shove the myth of global warming down our throats..
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Going Green!
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This is the best "going green" book. It tells you what you can do now, and on a daily basis to be a good green Earth loving inhabitant.
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Supre book!
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Very interesting and educational. Great book for anyone trying to do something good for our planet.
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Fun!
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I thought this was fun, straitforward, and simple with a lot of great tips. A quick read that anyone can enjoy.
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