
How Bad Are Bananas?
Book by Mike Berners-LeeWikipedia
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Sep 11, 2026
Best of Season 1: Global Challenges, Skills for the Planet
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5:02Jude PullenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If at the same time, we're not doing anything about it as consumers.
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5:07Jude PullenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So where I'm going with that is if it is widely understood and widely publicized in the public, which let's hope these statistics become more like, what is it, Mike Berners-Lee's How Bad Are Bananas, that people have a quick reference of like, I've just done a GPT or a Le Chat or a Claude Code, then they should have a sense of what the cost is.
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5:32Jude PullenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My challenge would be, is your query 10 times more useful than a Google search? In which case I kind of feel the scales maybe balance themselves out.
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5:41Jude PullenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you said to me, Did I use, you know, one of these Gen AI things to just do a sort of, you know, cat on a vacuum cleaner mashup video, then sure, maybe as a teenager, that's just part of me finding out what's funny.
Panic. Learn…then do stuff.
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36:28Sarah DuncanGUEST
John Elkington's Green Swans.
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36:30Sarah DuncanGUEST
classic would always recommend that one one that had a profound effect on me was Michael Mann's The New Climate War that really kind of struck a number of chords with me so all of those I think are worth it but if I had to do one it would be the my old perennial favorite of How Bad Are Bananas by Mike Berners-Lee
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36:52David CheneryHOST
Wonderful.
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36:53David CheneryHOST
I did know that you were very fond of that book.