The book is an excellent guide to global environmental issues for beginners, but so weak and useless for people with a basic knowledge of the subject. The lack of citations and poor statistics made this book rather unscientific.
The inspirational part is great. My expectations of depression in this book were shattered while reading it. The author gives us a sigh of faith and good expectations for the future, despite the terrible reality. But in some cases, it sounds quite naive. The root cause of the environmental crisis has been completely ignored. Consumerism, neoliberal capitalism, wars as the cause of this form of government, globalization, and other “gifts” of modernity.
We simply need to change the global order to achieve equality at different levels of society. You can shower twice a week instead of three, or you can sort all your waste, but this cannot be achieved by people who live in, for example, poor regions. They just need to pollute the environment because it’s part of their survival. Another example. Terrorists blew up the dam and caused serious environmental problems. Or just start a war that pollutes vast areas and affects biodiversity. I believe that this is a logical way to solve the Earth’s crisis, starting with these obstacles mentioned above.These big problems of our society simply compensate for your individual small efforts, or even not enough to compensate.
by chemaniac1812