How Good Are You?

Climate change is wreaking havoc. Water shortages are a permanent fixture. The nuclear debate is getting nasty. Every few weeks a new story about the horrors of battery hens hits the papers. It's hard to buy a pair of trainers without thinking about the 12-year-old who made them and imagining the kind of conditions in which she is working. Sometimes so much seems to be going wrong with the world that it s hard to know how to do the right thing. In this lively, witty and important book, Julian Lee takes the current ethical temperature. Along the way he takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the main stakeholders in the drive for better living, from organic farmers and fast-food franchises to ethical investors and fair-trade gurus. He explains how to separate the fraudsters from the ethical firebrands - and along the way he establishes how every one of us can make a difference.