50 Ways tp F**k the Planet

by David Glick, Mark Townsend

In a world where we're bombarded with advice on going green, authors Mark Townsend and David Glick take a refreshing line and tell us how NOT to go green. Indeed, they're here to help us f**k up the planet good and proper. And it's easier than you think. An irreverent celebration of environmental doom and gloom, 50 Ways to F**k the Planet takes the 'eco-handbook' in an outrageous new direction, exposing fifty very real and very scary threats facing the world today and showing just how entertaining and easy it is for us to make them worse. Forget the future. Why expend our energy on a lost cause? This is the defeatist (but not altogether unrealistic) stance taken by Townsend and Glick as they revel in the dire fate of our planet. Combining bleak facts with hilariously ironic commentary, the authors applaud our environmental incompetence and stick two fingers up at the whole damn thing. Punctuated with checklists and handy hints to f**k things up faster, this book is for those who want to stop pretending they are responsible world citizens and just get with the party. How much you get involved is up to you, but don't be fooled into thinking that doing nothing is any better. From the familiar honeybee, whose dwindling numbers have huge repercussions on our food chain, to the environmental implications of the smoking ban, the topics cover endangered species and declining terrain as well as social (mis)conduct and the devastating effects of commerce. Outspoken and unabashedly brazen, this is your ultimate countdown to the end of the world.

338 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[heidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing, funny and informative. I love how they delivered the usually sad and depressing facts about our mindless destruction of Nature in lines dripping with sarcasm and wit. Some lines just made me laugh out loud! Granted, most of the issues are discussed superficially but this book serves as a good introduction to highlight our planetary decay.

[Elias · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't finish this book because it was written in a way that felt repeating itself and maybe I wasn't up for that kind of writing right now. Funny perspective on serious matters and I'm definately feel more scared of the coming-fast-towards-us-all-Apocalypse. But the planet will do so much better without the human race, after all.