Laura Brown lives in the U.K. and unfortunately the U.K. is the first country to establish carbon rationing. Everyone will be expected to reduce their carbon consumption by 60%. Everyone has 200 Carbon Points per month to spend on travel, heat, food, and fun. The 200 Carbon Points are loaded on a card. In order to use anything, you have to swipe your card. If you have enough points – fine. If not, your oven could shut off in the middle of cooking dinner. People have to choose what is really important.
As tough as the carbon rationing is, the extreme weather patterns are worse. Unbearable heat, droughts, hurricanes, and floods put normal life on hold for everyone.
In addition to adapting to this new life, Laura also has to deal with typical teenage issues. Her family seems to be falling apart, her band is attempting to stay together, and she is trying to get the boy next door to notice her.
With the U.K. falling down around her, does Laura have the luxury of being a typical teenager?
Saci Lloyd has written an addicting eco-thriller. Following Laura through the toughest year of her life is fascinating. Readers will be anxious to read the follow-up, CARBON DIARIES 2017, later this year.
[...] 2009) 22. RAVEN by Allison Van Diepen (Feb. 24, 2009) 23. ALIS by Naomi Rich (Feb. 25, 2009) 24. CARBON DIARIES 2015 by Saci Llyod (Feb. 28, [...]
[...] a year ago I read THE CARBON DIARIES: 2015 and absolutely loved it. You can check out my review here. I’m very excited to see there is going to be a sequel. So, my Waiting on Wednesday this [...]
Today all we talk about is environmental issues, global warming, need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This topic is so vital and actual, but it seems that it is happening somewhere and with somebody, but with not us. The new sci-fi book by Saci Lloyd “The Carbon Diaries 2015” makes us realize that this is really happening with us, here and now, not with someone else. And we do need take action here and today.
Problem of global warming and disasters that occur all over the world are smartly interlaced with personal feelings and problems of a girl named Laura. The book is written in the form of a diary, which precisely describes everything that is going around: the way the world copes or is trying to cope with global warming and its consequences and the way Laura’s family is trying to cope the family crisis.
This is not an ordinary book about global warming that gives gloomy numbers and statistics and that is usually dust covered on a bookshelf. This is a fascinating book that is up to date and is definitely worth reading! This book is good for middle as well as high school students.
[...] Then we talk about where we could go and how we would survive and indeed who would survive. By then I hopefully have them hooked and prepared to try titles such as The enemy and The carbon diaries [...]
the book was ok…i guess/……i guuess im juss not the scifi person