Praise for 99th Day
“An epic, pulling together the many huge challenges facing our generation.”
Fidelma O’Kane, Save Our Sperrins
“This is a masterful book, brilliant in its clarity and beguiling in its argument.”
Tim Unwin, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of London
“Essential reading for anyone who cares about our planet. Prepare to be disturbed, enlightened and inspired.”
Justine McCarthy, The Irish Times
“This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the real impacts of the unsustainable growth in demand for raw materials triggered by digital transformation, and the need for us to change course.”
Torbjörn Fredriksson, Head of E-commerce and Digital Economy Branch, UN Trade and Development
“Beautifully written, evidence-based, eye-opening, frightening, page-turner. Big Tech will hate it. That’s why it is such an important book.”
Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton
“The timing is perfect … essential reading as we grapple with what a “green transition” really means”
Judith Schwartz, author of The Reindeer Chronicles
“A dispatch from the edge of a collapsing world … challenges us to become good ancestors before we thrust ourselves into oblivion.”
Joám Evans Pim, Director, Montescola Foundation
“Reads like a Truth and Reconciliation hearing about our technologies’ impacts to ecosystems and public health.”
Katie Singer, author of An Electronic Silent Spring
“As we face into an ever more precarious future this is a book everyone should read at least once.”
Derry Chambers, spokesperson, Cork Environmental Alliance
“Every page can become a workshop in a movement for life and against the Growth Death Cult.”
Jacintha van Roij, Mother at off-grid Welcome Homestead 'Abhainn an Ollfhia'
“Almost like a work of Shakespeare, the book was one unforgettable sentence after another. After finishing the book, I settled on "Memory is a form of resistance" as my most memorable sentence.”
Steven H. Emerman, Ph.D., Owner, Malach Consulting
“It does not offer comfort or dystopian exaggeration; it tells the truth plainly and insists that we bear witness.”
Marella Fyffe, Save Our Sperrins
“Refusing techno-fixes and false optimism, the book makes a compelling case for ecojustice, degrowth, restraint, and a profound reorientation of human values. Unsettling, lucid, and deeply necessary.”
Declan Owens, CEO, Ecojustice Ireland
“An excellent breakdown of the crisis facing our world today.”
Max Wilbert, community organizer
“It breaks through the dogmas of our capitalist society but also of the environmental movement itself, laying bare many tough truths that are essential to recognise if we are to restore harmony and achieve anything that could truly be called sustainability.”
Tom Greenwood, co-founder, Wholegrain Digital
“Against the acceleration imposed by Big Tech, McGovern calls for an ethics of slowness. This is, indeed, a necessary book—one that marks a turning point in the debate on the socio-environmental impact of the digital ecosystem.”
Pablo Gámez Cersosimo, researcher and author
