“At this point, I'm not sure what this book can offer that much that's going to enlighten us in 2007. Having been written in 1991, a lot of the major issues are either embedded in the consciousness of the modern public or have been dealt with adequately to render them less critical. For instance, one of the major issues that the Ehrlichs discuss is the hole in the ozone layer. In 1991 that was a serious environmental concern, but has been reversed today to the point that the hole is no longer an issue. Al Gore briefly discussed how population is causing environmental problems in "An Inconvenient Truth," which is something far more of us have seen than have read or will read this book. If you couple the fact that this book is relatively obsolete with the preachy tone (the authors excoriate to us that we must change or we'll be complicit in the demise of humanity) that I got from the first several chapters, you have a book that's best avoided unless it can be updated to focus on more relevant issues to this decade, or even century.”
mrjerz wrote this review Tuesday, November 6 2007.
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