''The Economical Environmentalist'' is a book by
Prashant Vaze about the effects of climate change and what practical measures can be taken to reduce the amount of energy one consumes.
It covers how best to save energy and points out contradictions such as "The one that particularly exasperates me is the “food miles” obsession, whereby we eschew tomatoes from
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and roses flown in from
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, in favour of local products grown in a heated greenhouse with a far greater
carbon footprint."
In the book he compares the savings available for several real-world examples of people so one can see what changes are possible to make.
References
Environmental non-fiction books
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