Fixing the Planet
An Overview for Optimists and
Activists
Introduction
Towards a climate crisis
1. Our warming world
2. Our carbon footprint
3. Overshooting the Earth’s capacity
4. Eating for the planet
The natural world
5. Trees of life
6. Where have all the species gone?
7. Save our soil
8. Our oceans
Our polluted world
9. I want clean air
10. Clean water please
11. Nuclear waste and nuclear accidents
12. Death by chemicals
13. The nitrogen bomb
The waste we create
14. Drowning in plastic
15. Zero-waste
16. The food we don’t eat
People on the planet
17. Too many people in the world?
18. Where will we all be living?
19. Where have all the jobs gone?
20. Displaced and trafficked people
Our wellbeing
21. Our food is killing us
22. I am an addict
23. The spread of disease
24. The lottery of life
25. Why are we so unhappy?
Our rights and responsibilities
26. Dictatorship and democracy
27. Truth and Lies
28. Algorithms rule the world
29. Human wrongs and human rights
30. Women hold up half the sky
31. Crime and punishment
Forces of destruction
32. A world of terror
33. A world at war
34. Nuclear bombs
Resources for good?
35. Wealth and inequality
36. Tax injustice
37. Winner takes all
38. Corruption and kleptocracy
39. Can we end world poverty?
40. Business doing better
In the beginning…
…And In the end
Yes we will
About the author
Acknowledgements