The Global Warming Survival Kit - Brian Clegg.
This book makes it clear that humanity faces a big challenge, and attempts to provide a strategy for survival.
Yet among the tips on how to conserve water, cope with power cuts and food shortages, there is also a section on 'Keeping Our Humanity'.
I think this is highly significant, as the author tries to guide the reader into building survival networks. Our society is really all about competing and acquiring - which is why we are in this mess in the first place. Brian Clegg wants us to consider the value of co-operation and sharing.
Some people, I know, will mock this. there are those who proclaim themselves to be such rebels and oh so totally agin' Bush an' all - and yet are just as mean and nasty as him in somewhat different ways and for different reasons.
Fortunately, none are on my f/list, and I only have to run into them in other communities.
but yeah - this is a book on how to make the most of things, how to make do and mend, improvise and solve problems. It also has useful advice on raising and keeping hold of self esteem and hope in a crisis. How to recognise depression, stress, physical fatigue and battle against them.
I dunno about anyone else, but I reckon that life is tough enough for this book to be useful already - never mind when the next tsunami strikes or the sea level goes up ten feet!
Yet among the tips on how to conserve water, cope with power cuts and food shortages, there is also a section on 'Keeping Our Humanity'.
I think this is highly significant, as the author tries to guide the reader into building survival networks. Our society is really all about competing and acquiring - which is why we are in this mess in the first place. Brian Clegg wants us to consider the value of co-operation and sharing.
Some people, I know, will mock this. there are those who proclaim themselves to be such rebels and oh so totally agin' Bush an' all - and yet are just as mean and nasty as him in somewhat different ways and for different reasons.
Fortunately, none are on my f/list, and I only have to run into them in other communities.
but yeah - this is a book on how to make the most of things, how to make do and mend, improvise and solve problems. It also has useful advice on raising and keeping hold of self esteem and hope in a crisis. How to recognise depression, stress, physical fatigue and battle against them.
I dunno about anyone else, but I reckon that life is tough enough for this book to be useful already - never mind when the next tsunami strikes or the sea level goes up ten feet!