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A Climate of Truth
  • Why We Need It and How To Get It
  • Mike Berners-Lee
  • Published online:
    27 March 2025
    Print publication:
    27 March 2025
  • We have most of the technology we need to combat the climate crisis - and most people want to see more action. But after three decades of climate COPs, we are accelerating into a polycrisis of climate, food security, biodiversity, pollution, inequality, and more. What, exactly, has been holding us back? Mike Berners-Lee looks at the challenge from new angles. He stands further back to gain perspective; he digs deeper under the surface to see the root causes; he joins up every element of the challenge; and he learns lessons from our failures of the past. He spells out why, if humanity is to thrive in the future, the most critical step is to raise standards of honesty in our politics, our media, and our businesses. Anyone asking 'what can each of us do right now to help?' will find inspiration in this practical and important book.

  • 1 - The Challenge Ahead

  • Mike Berners-Lee, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    A Climate of Truth
    Published online:
    27 March 2025
    Print publication:
    27 March 2025, pp 14-20
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  • Summary

    This chapter looks at the history of climate change, the failure to act, systemic thinking and truth.

  • 2 - Standing Further Back

  • Mike Berners-Lee, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    A Climate of Truth
    Published online:
    27 March 2025
    Print publication:
    27 March 2025, pp 21-36

  • Summary

    By exploring issues of energy, efficiency, growth and systemic resets, the reader is able to see the trajectory humanity is currently on and how it needs to change in order to survive and thrive moving forwards.

  • 4 - The Middle Layer of the Polycrisis

  • Mike Berners-Lee, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    A Climate of Truth
    Published online:
    27 March 2025
    Print publication:
    27 March 2025, pp 91-124

  • Summary

    This chapter addresses the social barriers to implementing the technical solutions to climate change - enabling the reader to recongnise that the threats we face cannot be solved in a social vacuum. It challenges the narrative of the traditional growth economy and widening levels of inequality. It looks at the mechanisms of the legal system, the role of education and technology, and also highlights the three key areas of politics, media and business which will be explored in further detail in later chapters.

  • 9 - Getting Truth into Business

  • Mike Berners-Lee, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    A Climate of Truth
    Published online:
    27 March 2025
    Print publication:
    27 March 2025, pp 193-211

  • Summary

    This chapter assesses what role businesses need to play in the transisiton to a sustainable future. It details the corporate attempts to debunk climate science and the ever-sophisticated art of greenwash. By exploring examples of both, the reader is enabled to think more critically about the role of business in society. It also looks at corruption and cover-ups and how neither have a place in an Anthropocene-fit business or industry. Finally, it gives examples of companies who are showing an ethical and sustainable way forward for the future.

  • Introduction

  • Mike Berners-Lee, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    A Climate of Truth
    Published online:
    27 March 2025
    Print publication:
    27 March 2025, pp 1-13

  • Summary

    The introduction sets out how Mike came to write the book, why it is so important for us to face up to the challenges ahead for humanity, how dismally we have so far failed to do so, how the book is structured and what kind of future we can hope for.

  • 7 - Getting Truth into Politics

  • Mike Berners-Lee, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    A Climate of Truth
    Published online:
    27 March 2025
    Print publication:
    27 March 2025, pp 151-173

  • Summary

    This chapter looks at the history of dishonesty in politics and why we must now do better. It gives the reader five criteria by which to assess a politician’s honesty, along with suggestions of what MPs can expect from us in return. Mike then explores the motives for voting and what democratic and parliamentary reforms would better serve humanity in the future, including an assessment of Citizens’ Juries.

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