“I only give this ine 2 stars because while I agree that we should simpilify our lives and go green he goes about discussing this in a most elitist way. Sure that's fine for someone in his position or similar but he doesn't address people who are not. For example he states how gathering food from the woods is still possible and how he has done so. Fine but what if all the people in your community did so and depended on that as one of their only food sources. How long would it actually last?
Interestingly he compares our life to that on medeval life. He never takes into account that the world didn't have the population it does now not to mention the technology. So taking medeval social/economic structure as an example to modern life doesn't always work.
Furthermore his advice on finanaces is devastating. He states how a woman he knew reneigociated then simply stopped payments to a credit card. That may work in England but in the US you'd be in trouble. There are ways to pay down and stay out of debt that could of been discussed.
All and all the book is not very realistic but does offer some good ideas some may even work.”
cbreyes wrote this review Wednesday, June 25 2008.
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