I have just finished reading this book and would recommend this reading to anyone who is interested in our consumptionist culture.
The book is written by a renowned journalist Fred Pearce who lives in London and specialises on environmental issues. The author made his aim to track down all the products he consumes.
His journeys included China, India, Australia, UK, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kenya and many more. Among with conventional truth of reduce, reuse, recycle he came to some unexpected conclusions such as that it might be better to buy beans from Kenya than from the UK, not buy laptop in Christmas time, burn paper instead of recycling it (not always, but you will understand as you read), and that maybe we shouldn’t stop buying clothes every season.
What is more, I really liked the language of the book: easy to grasp, sharp, with a bit of humor.
Maybe the book lacks academic approach and doesn’t go deep enough in the subject, but it definitely make me think much more about the way we consume and opened eyes on the even widening complexity and global scale of consumption.
Confessions Of An Eco-sinner, by Fred Pearce can be borrowed in our library.
Hope you will read and enjoy it!
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