I am not buying or borrowing any more books until I read and review the 13 that I bought (for a grand total of £17.50) in London on Friday 10th October 2025. You can see the list and the rationale here.
Title: The Little Green Book
Author: Vole editors Richard Boston, Richard Holme and Richard North
Year of publication: 1979
Publisher and location: Vole and Green Alliance
Total number of pages: 128 (small)
Why I bought it: I have a fascination with what we knew and were saying in the 1970s (before I can be held accountable for anything) about environment and climate.
Contents: Covers a huge amount of ground – the planet, trees, food, energy, pollution etc etc. Written in lively style too. Better, imo, than Mao’s Little Red Book – ymmv.
Fiction or non-fiction: fiction
What I expected: a couple of useable/quotable references to carbon dioxide build-up
What I got (review, context etc): a couple of useable/quotable references to carbon dioxide build-up, and much else – quotes, things to look up (DDD and where it was ‘hiding’ so not captured in measurements) etc etc.
Also need to track down more on John Tyme (anti-Motorway stuff in 1970s), the Crosland “One Man, One Car” nonsense and so on.
“The capacity for progressive action on the part of any local authority is in inverse ratio to the need for it” Old Kentish aphorism
There is an entire article to be written about this artefact, in fact.
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