Fixing the Planet: An Overview for Optimists and Activists

A unique guide to the challenges we face in repairing the environment and creating a fairer world for all - and how overcome them.

Our global challenges are massive and interconnected. World-wide change demands informed individuals. Every choice - from consumption to connection - is political and knowledge is our best driver for change.

This new book from innovator, activist and educator Michael Norton is unique in its ambition and scope. Fixing the Planet showcases solutions, showing people doing positive and creative things to address all of the world's problems featured in the book, alongside an analysis of the problem with facts, figures and examples. It brings together the widest range of existential threats to human existence on our planet, but in a spirit of optimism, showing that things can be better and all that is required is creativity and energy

Chapters cover Climate Change, Natural World, Pollution, Waste, Population and Displacement, Wellbeing, Rights and Responsibilities, Forces of Destruction and Resources. From soil to nuclear energy, plastic waste to algorithms it is a broad ranging survey of everything that needs repair and who and how it's being done.

Both hard-hitting and inspiring - it makes clear all that needs to be done and highlights those pioneering solutions - and what you can do to actually help.