Oscar Hills

Propaganda from start to finish. I struggled through to the end of this book, however chapter three - 'The World We Must Create' - should be enough to turn you off. This chapter explains what an optimum utopia scenario looks like where shared home and vehicle ownership is celebrated, meat consumption is banned, travel is outlawed, and citizens happily live in local shared communities and have no need to leave. The authors display an omniscient world view that surely their readers must abide by. As you can imagine, the introduction celebrates people gluing themselves to pavements. I have read several books on climate change as I have a keen interest in conservation, however this book fails to explain and fails to convince. The authors present a future they think the reader wants. They fail to acknowledge that most people have no interest in wholesale lifestyle changes that deprive them of choice and all the things that bring them happiness. It must also be said that any book on climate change that doesn't mention the elephant(s) in the room - overpopulation and China - is merely virtue signalling. Every chapter tells the reader what they should think and what they must do. This book, much like the London mayor's tyrannical ULEZ tax or the Government's heat pump campaign, assumes the public are fully compliant and happy to pay for a worse quality of life. If the goal set out in chapter three is what we are supposed to hope for, I think I'd rather retain my rights and choice and not be subjected to a smug, perceived greater good mentality where the public relinquish privilege to be controlled be their government. Writing on this subject needs significant improvement if the message is to gain any traction.