The book was not what I expected it to be. I thought it might take all of the facts from each side of the argument, explain things concisely and correctly, and come up with step by step processes to slow or eliminate the use of land and materials, and eliminate political/financial interests in dirty fossil fuels. No, instead it was very one-sided, biased, and opinionated with facts in between. The author made up phrases like ’petro dictatorship’ that did not make sense even when he does explain what his definition of the phrase is. He attempts to say that a green revolution has not started yet, I would have to disagree. The once industry jargon ’sustainability’ is now a phrase used regularly in the layman’s world (commonly known as ’green’). What was once a fad among industries and their clients, are now standards that must be met in many states and countries (such as California and China). Even though we have not fully implemented sustainability practices, does not mean a revolution hasn’t started. The author claims that a revolution is the aftermath of fully implementing an ideal, where an ideal is something partially implemented, working to become standard. The author claims that sustainability right now is an ideal. What he claims is an ideal is by definition an actual revolution; A true ideal is a thought, a want, something that hasn’t been implemented in any shape or form. A revolution are the events leading up to fully implementing an ideal. I did come out of this reading disappointed by the style of argument this author presents. It is another blog turned into a book, and labeled as adult non-fiction. I strongly recommend reading this if you want a fresh look at another side of environmental opinion, but, if you are researching why the human race should implement a sustainable revolution then this is not the literature you are looking for.

posted Feb 23, 2010 at 9:53PM

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