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My first reaction was "great idea, but how do you scale it up?" - Butterworth says it can be scaled up and gives some examples and ideas, and I didn't see anything in his argument that I could contradict, but you should read his book yourself to see what you think.
Butterworth has an informal style and is mostly very easy to read. However, the book - necessarily - does go into quite a bit of detail, and sometimes the narrative flow suffers for it. I don't think it's anything that could have been easily avoided though. Proofreading falls down a little on the odd occasion and some tougher editing might have tightened it up a little. Overall, however, the book reads like a presentation or long talk, and is absolutely appropriate to the practical approach to the topic.
We do need more of this practical approach in the debate about climate change, I think. We hear politicians grandstanding and campaigners being emotive, but what we actually need are costed and simple plans. Butterworth's closed loop recycling of waste to land is without doubt a great example of such a plan. The blueprint is relatively simple, relatively cost-effective, understandable by just about everyone, and doesn't frighten us by prescribing too painful a hair shirt.
