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How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything by Mike Berners-Lee

wolfsonarchitect's review against another edition

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4.0

This books important that provides readers with a sense of proportion on how personal and societal behaviors affect climate change. As we are bombarded by dos and don'ts it is essential that we develop a sense of what's important versus what to not stress about. Discussion of climate change and carbon footprint can quickly get into complicated science. This author shows that quick calculations can illustrate the relative proportions of different parts of our life on our carbon footprint.

rupertgil's review against another edition

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informative reflective fast-paced

3.75

merrinsh's review against another edition

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3.0

3.5!! Interesting & well written though I am not scientifically minded enough to fully conceptualize

ava96's review against another edition

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I didn't find it engaging nor particularly informative unfortunately. 

nicolaiofdk's review against another edition

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3.0

Great fun but either / or old and hard to replicate numbers

annamerr_'s review against another edition

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dark informative medium-paced

5.0

sanmeow's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

3.0

as the title says, the book analyzes the carbon footprint and what influences it. full of pretty well explained examples. it wasn't as exciting or eye opening for me because i already knew a lot of this or it just seemed like common sense. but i do think it's a good way to generally educate one on what a carbon footprint is and what it has an effect on. 

hannawgn's review

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funny informative fast-paced

4.0

disappointed that the author chose a CO2 amount per person that is too high, like he says himself.. otherwise good analysis!

colleo19's review against another edition

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This should be required reading for everyone, especially those that don’t think climate change exists or doesn’t require action on an individual level

harrydargavel's review against another edition

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challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5