Mike Berners-Lee: “Being a billionaire can make people go nuts”

Mike Berners-Lee argues that misinformation and dishonesty have become normalised in British politics.

In A Climate of Truth , he criticises those who have helped to sow confusion over the severity of climate crisis.

The environmentalist has published four books in five years , drawing on his expertise to warn of the consequences of humankind’s failure to find an anthropocene-fit way of living.

In A Climate of Truth, Berners-Lee accuses tech barons and other “malign influences” of “creating targeted fake content to corrupt democracies” He also rebukes the mainstream media, noting a recent Daily Mail headline in which the paper described the latest report by the UN -mandated International Panel on Climate Change as “climate hysteria” This type of coverage feeds into the normalisation of dishonesty in public life.