Confessions of an eco-sinner: travels to find where my stuff came from
In a consumer society, it's easy to feel distanced from where your belongings come from. But what would happen on a world trip to discover the origins of your everyday possessions? This book tells the story of one man's attempt to answer that question.
In Confessions of an Eco Sinner, science writer Fred Pearce travels from the market at the end of his own street to the ends of the earth to investigate his ecological and social footprint and discover the real story behind where his belongings have come from. And that's everything from the cotton in his shirt to the prawns in his curry.
The journey takes him to African rainforests, central Asian deserts to Bangladeshi sweatshops and Chinese computer factories. But it's not all doom and gloom: Pearce says that the experience left him with 'some optimism about humanity and the huge potential we have to run our world better'. £17.99 at WH Smiths
