'What We Need To Do Now" critique
What We Need To Do Now - For a Zero Carbon Future is a enlightening 2020 book by the British author and businessman Chris Goodall. At 195 pages (hardback edition) for the core content, it is fairly short in length, but it doesn't hang about or waste words. Goodall writes with elan and succintness that few other books on the subject can match. I enjoyed reading the book, and would recommend to others. It really got me thinking and questioning previous opinions that I held quite dear. Though I have to query some of the claims and conclusions that Chris arrives at. Here are the main ones (page numbers are from the 2020 hardback edition). "Successful attempts have already been made in the UK to establish locally owned electricity and gas companies of this type" (p54) The type of company that Chris alludes to is a municipally-owned utility, like the Stadwerke M ΓΌ nchen (Munich) example that he cites earlier in this chapter. Such a firm owns the distrbution - and often genera...