Crap at the Environment - Softcover

'Expect to hear plenty more about him' -- Observer 'Packed with brilliant observations and sharp one-liners' -- The Times on A Light-hearted Look at Murder 'Intelligent, humane and desperately funny' -- Independent on Sunday 'Eloquence and wit ... an absolute gem' -- Metro 'Woody Allen and William Boyd have had a bastard love-child and his name is Mark Watson' -- Stephen Fry 'A quirky, irreverant take on the green lifestyle ... an accessible antidote to the flood of more worthy environmental titles already available ... in comical, self-deprecating style' -- Bookseller '[One of] the new green heroes.' -- Sunday Times on CRAP AT THE ENVIRONMENT 'Mark Watson comes across like a green St Paul to Al Gore's Jesus Christ' -- BBC List 'Despite his irrational fear of cycling and uselessness at crafts; he can write an accessible environmental book which is both informative and laugh out loud funny, or, if you prefer, "funformative"' -- The List 'Unpretentious, informative and very, very funny. Buy it for all your friends, or buy one and share. Imagine all the tree you'll save!' -- Herald Sun, Australia 'Funny, at times bizarre ... full of nervous energy' -- Sunday Express

What the environmental movement has been waiting for is a plane-frequenting, blissfully ignorant comedian with no green credibility whatsoever to tackle one of the most important issues of our time. When non-expert Mark Watson announced his intention to spend the year becoming less Crap At The Environment, within 24 hours, 500 mates and fans had joined him. He lived for (almost) a week without plastic. He ransacked libraries in order to read frightening books on climate change. He lured audiences outside to plant trees, confronted his morbid fear of bike-riding, even started eating vegetables. And a man who began 2007 as a blight on the planet ended up coming to the attention of the most famous almost-president in the world, Al Gore ...