This book actually barely qualifies as anything to do with the preservation of the Human Eco-Sphere. The book is entirely politics. Lets get one thing straight; we are not a traditional “Greens”. We are proponents of the free market and, to a certain extent, of Globalisation. There is much in this book that is nothing more than a load of reheated and totally obsolete Socialist rhetoric. Hence there was much here that I found tiresome and irrelevant. The author’s concerns about Globalisation run along the normal lines of objections to the ‘one-size-fits-all’ neo-conservatism of the WTO and World Bank. To this I have sympathy. Where I depart from this line of logic is that it fails to recognise that the ‘greens’ are, sadly, NOT going to change this with the arguments in this book. Continue reading →