I was engrossed. It’s now my go-to book.

Deborah Meaden

Entrepreneur, investor and TV Dragon

This book is bracing, lucid, and leaves you buzzing.

Kate Raworth

Author of Doughnut Economics

Bracing, lucid, and leaves you buzzing. This book is like diving into a freezing lake. Packing a life’s worth of wisdom into every chapter, Mike Berners-Lee sets out the hard facts while holding the consequences with deep care. Dive in.

Persuasive and informative… Offers the information that citizens need.

Martin Rees

Astronomer Royal

Mike Berners-Lee’s book is persuasive and informative. He is rightly dismayed at the lack of urgency in global efforts to limit climate change. This book will energise campaigners, and offer them, in compact and highly readable format, the information that citizens need.

A marvellous, inspiring and heart-felt narrative.

Bill McGuire

Author of Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide

Truth is an increasingly scarce commodity in a world of alternative facts and weaponised obfuscation. In the context of the climate and ecologically emergency, this is more than frustrating but, quite literally, a matter of life and death. As planetary breakdown spirals out of control, we are staring a grim, hothouse future full in the face, and only hearing and taking on board the truth will ensure we have any chance of spurring the wholesale action needed to stymie looming cataclysm. In this marvellous, inspiring, and heart-felt narrative, Mike Berners-Lee reveals how embracing truth, honesty and plain speaking can not only transform every aspect of how we live our lives on planet Earth, but also ensure that our kids and their kids inherit a world worth living in.

Clear, forthright and compellingly persuasive.

Chris Goodall

Author of Possible: Ways to Net Zero

Mike Berners-Lee shows us how the world’s environmental problems – including the loss of biodiversity and climate breakdown – are all interlinked. He goes on to demonstrate that the obstacles to remedying these crises are not technological. Instead, he conclusively demonstrates that we need substantial social and political changes to cope with the growing threats. I was particularly struck by the emphasis he places on improving the standards of honesty in public life as a prerequisite for addressing the many challenges we face. As in all his writing, Mike is clear, forthright, and compelling persuasive.

Few books are as comprehensive, readable and engaging as this one.

Hugh Montgomery OBE

University College London

Much has been written on the climate crisis and solutions to it, but few books [on climate] are as comprehensive, readable and engaging as this one. Even fewer have something truly original to say. This book is different. Here, climate, social and political science meet behavioural economics, and more. The book covers values and value; expediency and honesty; law and lore; lying hard, lying down, and taking a stand. A conversational style combined with serious erudition makes for ready reading, but this book is much more than just words. A Climate of Truth provides a real action plan that goes beyond the conventional list around the climate crisis with which many are already familiar. Far more than a moral sermon, it is a rallying call to action. Read this book.

An astonishing, essential and radical book.

Baroness Rosie Boycott

Crossbench peer

The brilliance of A Climate of Truth is that it cuts through the layers of mistruths to reveal the starker realities of the polycrisis we are facing. Everything that we do is entangled – and heading in a dangerous direction. Mike Berners-Lee provides effective solutions, but they are going to demand enormous changes in human behaviour, replacing our constant desire for growth with a genuine sustainable approach to living.

An extraordinary book that needs to become ordinary as soon as possible.

Lucy Siegle

Writer, Producer and Presenter

This is an extraordinary book that needs to become ordinary as soon as possible. Mike has developed a roadmap to take action in a polycrisis featuring nature and climate collapse. The care and respect he shows to both our psychological health and the science in developing his programme is outstanding. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never done eco stuff before, this is what you do now. Thank you Mike.

An essential handbook setting out the urgent changes we need to make.

Caroline Lucas

Former MP and Leader, Green Party of England and Wales

Provocative, challenging, insightful and wise, A Climate of Truth is an essential handbook setting out the urgent changes we need to make. And chief among those isn’t technological or even economic change: it’s raising standards of honesty and integrity in public life. Berners-Lee’s case is powerful and compelling: it is dishonesty that has been the biggest block to progress on climate for decades. And the most effective way to radically improve our chances of thriving in the years to come is by demanding honesty from business, media and – most of all – from our politicians.

This is a book we all need to read. Mike makes hope a generative action.

Mary Portas OBE

Brand and Retail Expert, Co-Chair of Better Business Act

This is a book we all need to read – a humane, honest and intelligent approach to why we are where we are and how we can still make impactful change. Mike makes hope a generative action.

A fabulous read, offering up tangible actions.

Dale Vince OBE

Founder of Ecotricity

Mike’s new book is a fabulous read, offering up tangible actions for every one of us and I thoroughly recommend it.

Rigorously detailed … honest and insightful.

Tim Farron

Lib Deb MP

Mike’s rigorously detailed expertise is evident throughout…an honest and insightful delve into how we must all strive to understand the reality of the Climate Crisis.

This book contains both optimistic and uncomfortable messages.

Peter Oborne

Journalist and broadcaster

This book contains both optimistic and uncomfortable messages. Climate change can be confronted. But for that to happen there’s an urgent need to demand change in our dishonest public culture.

This is Mike Berners-Lee’s magnificent magnum opus.

John Bowers KC

Principal Brasenose College, Oxford, and barristers

This is Mike Berners-Lee’s magnificent magnum opus. An excellent book distilling his work so far on the climate crisis and leading to the key issue of honesty, with chapters on how we can get truth into business; media; and politics. This is all the more relevant given recent election results.

Mike documents clearly why business-more-or-less-as-usual is not working.

Pooran Desai OBE

Founder OnePlanet.com and originator of One Planet Living

Mike documents clearly why business-more-or-less-as-usual is not working and won’t work. We need a Plan B. Mike provides the key components that we need for such a plan. Let’s collaborate to co-create and implement such a plan.

We have no alternative but to tell and face the truth

Rupert Read

Co-Director, Climate Majority Project

Do you want to understand the ‘polycrisis’? Mike Berners-Lee takes you inside it. The crucial demand saturating this book is that – hard as it sometimes is – we have no alternative but to tell and face the truth. This book will provide you with crucial help in accepting this, and gives you vital information on what we all might do about it.