Crap at the Environment
Mark Watson
Crap at the Environment
What the environmental movement has been waiting for is a plane-frequenting, blissfully ignorant comedian with no green credibility whatsoever to tackle one of the most important issues of our time. When non-expert Mark Watson announced his intention to spend the year becoming less Crap At The Environment, within 24 hours, 500 mates and fans had joined him. He lived for (almost) a week without plastic. He ransacked libraries in order to read frightening books on climate change. He lured audiences outside to plant trees, confronted his morbid fear of bike-riding, even started eating vegetables. And a man who began 2007 as a blight on the planet ended up coming to the attention of the most famous almost-president in the world, Al Gore ...
4.0 out of 5 based on 2 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Classification |
Non-fiction |
| Genre |
Humour, Science & Nature |
| Format |
Paperback |
| Pages |
320 |
| RRP |
£11.99 |
| Date of Publication |
June 2008 |
| ISBN |
978-0340952801 |
| Publisher |
Hodder & Stoughton |
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What the environmental movement has been waiting for is a plane-frequenting, blissfully ignorant comedian with no green credibility whatsoever to tackle one of the most important issues of our time. When non-expert Mark Watson announced his intention to spend the year becoming less Crap At The Environment, within 24 hours, 500 mates and fans had joined him. He lived for (almost) a week without plastic. He ransacked libraries in order to read frightening books on climate change. He lured audiences outside to plant trees, confronted his morbid fear of bike-riding, even started eating vegetables. And a man who began 2007 as a blight on the planet ended up coming to the attention of the most famous almost-president in the world, Al Gore ...
Reviews
The Sydney Morning Herald
Bruce Elder
“As a practical, often amusing, always insightful and pragmatic look at what individuals can do about global warming and the problems of the environment, this is a valiant attempt to produce something that is useful and readable. If you care (and everyone should), it is worth reading.”
16/05/2008
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The Guardian
Steven Poole
“The book is full of useful detail on issues such as meat, plastic bags and travel, even if Watson's obsessive, self-indulgent insistence on his own crapness at many things (except comedy, of course) becomes rather wearing. At least his fictional dialogues can be funny - says one cynic: "Everyone in Britain ought to kill a polar bear because we can power one-third of the country for a year from its screams."”
26/07/2008
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