Some exciting talks coming up organised by Brendon Books with the support of Climate Action Taunton. Book at Brendon Books, Bath Place on online here.

Mike Berners-Lee – A Climate of Truth : Why We Need It and How To Get It
Sun 19 Oct 2025, 12:30PM

Venue: Temple Methodist Church, Upper High St, Taunton TA1 3PY

We have all the technology we need to live better than ever before, and yet humanity is still accelerating into a climate and ecological emergency. To understand why – and to give ourselves a chance of doing better – we have to look at the challenge from new angles. A Climate of Truth does this by standing further back from the problem to gain perspective, by digging deeper under the surface to see the root causes, by joining up every element of the challenges we face, and by learning from our failures so far. This urgent and practical book points to what all of us can do to maximise our impact and be part of the evolution that humanity so urgently needs to avoid the polycrisis. Tickets: £9

Rob Hopkins – How to Fall in Love With the Future:Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World
Wed 22 Oct 2025, 6:30PM

Venue: Temple Methodist Church, Upper High St, Taunton TA1 3PY

In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of daily life, climate activist and Transition Network cofounder Rob Hopkins responded the way a lot of people did: by starting a podcast. But it wasn’t any ordinary podcast. In each episode, Hopkins and his guests would “time travel” together to the year 2030—walking down imagined future streets, talking with imagined future neighbours, visiting imagined future local businesses. What Hopkins discovered was no less profound: this simple exercise of visiting a positive future forced him to rethink the work he’d been doing as a climate activist for decades. How to Fall in Love with the Future is the result of that radical disruption.
Tickets: £10

Susannah Fisher – Sink or Swim : How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate
Wed 12 Nov 2025, 6:30PM

Venue: Brendon Books, Bath Place, Taunton TA1 4ER

This will not be enough. Sink or Swim explores the hard choices that lie ahead concerning how people earn a living, the way governments manage relationships between countries, and how communities accommodate the movement of people. Should people be encouraged to move away from the coast? How can global food supplies be managed when parts of the world are hit by simultaneous droughts? How can conflict be handled when there isn’t enough water? Drawing on cutting edge research, interviews with experts, and practical examples from across the world, Susannah Fisher tells the story of the tough choices on adaptation that lie ahead, and looks at ways we can still have a liveable planet later in this century and beyond. Tickets: £8