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Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle
Why Individual Climate Action Matters More than Ever
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Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle
Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do and shows how to slash your own carbon footprint by 80% to 2.5 tonnes per year by choosing a life of quality over quantity, and sufficiency over efficiency, as we race to save our only home from catastrophic heating.
Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency.
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Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency.
Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions while not sweating the small stuff.
The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert catastrophe. This means that many of us have to cut our individual carbon footprints by over 80% to 2.5 tonnes per person per year by 2030. But where to start?
Drawing on Lloyd Alter's journey to track his daily carbon emissions and live the 1.5 degree lifestyle, coverage includes:
- What it looks like to live a rich and truly green life
- From take-out food, to bikes and cars, to your internet usage—finding the big wins, ignoring the trivial, and spotting marketing ploys
- The invisible embodied carbon baked into everything we own and why electric cars aren't the answer
- How to start thinking about sufficiency rather than efficiency
- The roles of individuals versus governments and corporations.
Grounded in meticulous research and yet accessible to all, Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle is a journey toward a life of quality over quantity, and sufficiency over efficiency, as we race to save our only home from catastrophic heating.
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Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle by Lloyd Alter is praised for its engaging and intelligent approach, combining myth-busting and in-depth research to present a practical lifestyle guide focused on sufficiency. Reviewers commend its ability to humanise the complex choices involved in addressing climate change by providing clear insights and actionable advice. Lloyd Alter's clear and fresh writing style offers an urgent call to personal action, encouraging readers to rethink their lifestyle through a lens of environmental responsibility and practical sustainability.
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ISBN: 9780865719644
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 September 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: New Society Publishers
Illustration: 10 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 272g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Lloyd Alter is a writer, public speaker, and former architect, developer, and inventor. He has published over 14,000 articles on Treehugger . He has become convinced that we just use too much of everything - too much space, too much land, too much food, too much fuel, too much money - and that the key to sustainability is to simply use less, what he calls Radical Sufficiency. He teaches sustainable design at Ryerson School of Interior Design and when not writing can often be found in his running shoes, on his bike, or in his 1989 Hudson single scull in Toronto, Canada.
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