The last book read and recommendation in 2023 – ‘Being the Change’ by American climate scientist Peter Kalmus.

We were intrigued to read this book as we were already aware of Peter Kalmus’ exploits after he got arrested for participating in a climate change protest and his passionate speeches at such protests on the perils of climate breakdown. Also, this book is on the very topic we are trying to achieve – reducing our carbon emissions to as low as practical.

Peter achieves a significant reduction in his emissions from 20 tonnes CO2 equivalent per year (roughly in line with the average American) to just 2 tonnes.

On his journey he talks about Maeby, a 1984 Mercedes he manages to convert to run on waste vegetable oil, his rediscovering of his love of bicycling, how the simplest and necessary change we can all make is a change of mindset, humanure ?, the nature of exponential change (cue James Bond analogy) and the importance (once again) of Meditation in our lives.

As you can tell, a very interesting and wide-ranging read that gives plenty of food for thought… highly recommended.

A copy of the book if interested can be purchased here.

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