Confessions of an Eco Sinner

Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes from

Fred Pearce

368 pages, parution le 25/02/2008

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Like many of us, Fred Pearce works hard from a city base, cares for his family and tries fitfully to do his bit for the planet too. But travelling across the world to track his personal 'footprint', he finds himself questioning an extraordinary number of accepted truths. Perhaps his well-intentioned efforts are not so good after all. Should Kenyan green beans go right back on his shopping list? Should he stop campaigning for a clean coastline and start shouting, 'Save wildlife, sh** on the beach'? While he's at it, should he be cheering for Bangladeshi sweatshops too?

In search of the source of the cotton in his shirt, the prawns in his curry and the people who grew, mined or made all his stuff, Fred travels from rainforest to desert, up mountains and down mines, from oil field to shanty town to brothel. Yes, he finds squalor and despair. But also he finds good things in surprising places and huge opportunities just waiting to be seized. Challenging a series of green assumptions, this compelling story of Fred's travels moves green thinking on to a new, more sophisticated plane.

L'auteur - Fred Pearce

Fred Pearce, journaliste spécialisé dans l'écologie, travaille régulièrement pour le NewScientist, The Guardian, ou encore The Ecologist. Il est l'auteur des Tribulations d'un consommateur ordinaire qui se prenait pour un écolo exemplaire (Éditions de La Martinière, 2010), Quand meurent les grands fleuves (Calmann-Lévy, 2006), Points de rupture (Calmann-Lévy, 2008), pour lequel il a obtenu le prix de l'Alliance pour la Planète (2008), et Le Réchauffement climatique (Pearson Education, 2008).
Il vit actuellement en Angleterre.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Eden Project Books
Auteur(s)	Fred Pearce
Parution	25/02/2008
Nb. de pages	368
Couverture	Broché
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781905811106
ISBN13	978-1-90581110-6