Saving the Environment: What It Will Take (Frontlines)

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Summary: A concise, thought-provoking introduction
Review: This brief book is Ted Trainer's manifesto on the state of the environment, a critique of the existing social and economic order, and an overview of what a more sustainable society might look like.

Trainer argues that environmental problems cannot be solved simply by recycling more, stopping old-growth logging or buying products with green dolphins on the label. Rather, a far more fundamental social and economic shift is needed.

Although the book is very short, it deals with subject-matter that could easily fill an encyclopedia. The point of this book is obviously to provide an introduction for those new to these arguments, and to provide a starting point for further reading. It achieves this reasonably well- it is certainly thought-provoking, and a list of recommended books is provided at the end.

I'm not sure that it is worth buying though, given that it is so brief. I'd say that anyone with more than a passing interest in this subject would probably be better off starting with something a bit more substantial.

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Summary: Too far fetched
Review: Trainer's views for the new way in which society need to be shaped is the main idea that is relevent in this book. The only thing wrong with this book is that while his ideas are valid they are not really realistic in the current way of life. Good book just needs some optimsm when being read.