39 Ways to Save the Planet, Tom Heap
39 Ways to Save the Planet, Tom Heap
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39 Ways to Save the Planet

Author: Tom Heap

Narrator: Tom Heap

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/25/2021


Synopsis

Climate change is real. It's happening. But it's not the end of the world.

Beating climate change takes the best ideas from the smartest minds, and in this programme, Tom Heap reveals 39 ways to relieve the stress that climate change is exerting on the planet.

Our brightest brains are developing potent carbon-cutting ideas - from the paddy fields of the Punjab to the Siberian permafrost. We hear about incredible new solar panel materials and robots repairing wind turbines, as well as thinking about biodiversity, trees and blue carbon - the marine and coastal ecosystems that are so important for storing carbon and preventing coastal erosion.

There isn't going to be just one solution. We're not going to discover one new energy source that will solve the whole problem. But it all adds up. And one thing that all these solutions have in common is that the people working on them believe they can make a big difference.

All of these different solutions, with all of their different pros and cons, will at some point get us to our net zero target. This is a golden opportunity to pause, and design a better future.

We made this mess, but we can clean it up.

Presented by Tom Heap, with Dr Tamsin Edwards
Produced by Alasdair Cross and Anne-Marie Bullock
Researcher: Sarah Goodman
Produced in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society

© 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
(p)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dalila on July 26, 2024

There were some interesting concepts. But I think they lost me at "bringing back and cloning Woolly Mammoths Jurassic Park style" to help bio-diversity in the Arctic. You can tell a journalist wrote this and not a climate scientist. 🤣......more

Goodreads review by Bagus on January 12, 2022

Written in the style of self-help books, Tom Heap offers 39 ways to fight climate change that is easy to follow with people from all walks of life and in different parts of the world. We have been too familiar with the term “net-zero” and this book was published close to the date of COP26 in Glasgow......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 20, 2022

Eminently readable but with sound technical detail and many useful epithets and lessons eg "now not new", "and not or","because they want to do it rather than are compelled to do it". It perhaps demands a concluding chapter to summarise the crucial changes that need to be made: global co-operation,......more

Goodreads review by Lily on September 11, 2022

This was an interesting read and encouraging for those worried about the future of climate change. Personally I was expecting more about how I as an individual could help rather than the whole book being about specialist scientists in large industries, however it is comforting to know that things are......more

Goodreads review by Jill on October 23, 2021

In 39 Ways to Save the Planet, Tom Heap explores a variety of ways in which the world’s carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced. The text is split into seven areas: energy, nature, farming, society, transport, buildings and industry, waste. Topics covered range from the familiar, such as solar and......more