Mike Berners-Lee’s solution for the polycrisis may be just too hard

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A Climate of Truth is a penetrating and enlightening analysis of the many crises we face. But it demands impossible standards of flawed human beings, finds Graham Lawton

By Graham Lawton


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TOPSHOT - A boy rides past as smoke billows from a burning garbage dump, in Lahore on November 1, 2024. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP) (Photo by ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images)

Pollution like the smoke seen at this garbage dump in Pakistan is part of an ongoing polycrisis

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A Climate of Truth
Mike Berners-Lee (Cambridge University Press UK: On sale now US: On sale from 10 April)

Mike Berners-Lee  admits he is worried about getting bad reviews for his new book, which criticises sections of the UK media for having editorial agendas effectively set by their owners. In the readable but dispiriting A Climate of Truth: Why we need it and how to get it, he points the finger at the BBC, Rupert Murdoch’s empire, the …

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