Title: A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World

The world stands at a crossroads. What route to the future should we take? The road to a sustainable future beckons, but what effect will this have on chemistry, which appears so dependent on fossil resources?This latest book from award-winning science writer, John Emsley, shows how vital chemistry is for producing abundant food, clean water, healing drugs, alternative fuels, and plastics, and how most of the things which a modern society requires now depend on it – and that includes city living and even sport. Can we really produce all that we need from sustainable sources? Given a new generation of bright young chemists he argues that we can.Written in an appealing style, this layperson’s guide explains the roles of chemistry in areas of life ranging from the entirely personal to the global, as well as deconstructing several urban myths about chemicals.