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The Biggest Footprint

Eight Billion Humans. One Clumsy Giant

by Rob Sears & Tom Sears (illustrator)

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE AND CONSERVATION WRITING FOR CHILDREN 2022Meet the mega human: colossal, clueless . . . and the biggest hope for life on earthThere are eight billion of us humans. All breathing, eating, fidgeting and thinking deep thoughts.It's an unimaginably large number. Or is it? The mega human is the result of smooshing all the people in the world together into one spectacular giant (don't try this at home). Even though the mega human is not the smartest of creatures, it is slowly beginning to understand the problems it has created for Planet Earth's future . . . and how it might be able to fix them.Making use of brain-bending stats and smoosh theory, The Biggest Footprint is a journey of self-discovery suitable for anyone and everyone identifying as human.
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Pages:

96

Published:

Oct 2021

Format

Hardback

Publisher

Canongate Books

ISBN:

9781838853495

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE AND CONSERVATION WRITING FOR CHILDREN 2022Meet the mega human: colossal, clueless . . . and the biggest hope for life on earthThere are eight billion of us humans. All breathing, eating, fidgeting and thinking deep thoughts.It's an unimaginably large number. Or is it? The mega human is the result of smooshing all the people in the world together into one spectacular giant (don't try this at home). Even though the mega human is not the smartest of creatures, it is slowly beginning to understand the problems it has created for Planet Earth's future . . . and how it might be able to fix them.Making use of brain-bending stats and smoosh theory, The Biggest Footprint is a journey of self-discovery suitable for anyone and everyone identifying as human.
$33.00

I read that the author’s aim with this book was to give readers a graphic way to look at the big data about our species. And they’ve far surpassed their goal in this beautifully simple, illustrated story of humanity’s impact on nature through the lens of a 3km-tall blue giant (roughly the size of eight billion humans mashed together). Carrying all the baggage of humanity with it this mega human proves not to be the smartest of creatures (spot on so far), but through careful observation begins to understand the problems it has created for Planet Earth’s future… and how it might be able to fix them. There is hope for us yet if we’d all just come together to make it happen.

Roger's avatarRoger, Little Unity