About Fred Pearce as stated by Thomas Homer-Dixon:

"We all agree, don't we?  Eating local food is best.  We should cut out buying all that fruit and vegetables flown across the world to our tables.
Except well, don't we also think that we should help Africa with "trade not aid"?  Spot the contradiction?  Fred Pearce went in search of the people who grew green beans flown to his home town from Kenya in East Africa. And he came back convinced that, sometimes, we should be buying the imported stuff. That kind of talk doesn't make Fred a lot of friends among his fellow-greens. But that's the strength of his new book: Confessions of an Eco  Sinner. He travelled the world to find out where his stuff came from and isn't afraid to take on the sacred cows of the green movement. This is ethical shopping for grown-ups."

Speaker Bio:

Fred Pearce is a former news editor at New Scientist. Currently that magazine's environment and development consultant, he has also written for Audubon, Popular Science, Time, the Boston Globe, and Natural History. His books include With Speed and Violence, When the Rivers Run Dry, Keepers of the Spring, Turning Up the Heat, and Deep Jungle. The Times called him "One of Britain's finest science writers." He lives in England.