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Title: State of the World 2000 by Lester Brown, Lester R. Brown, Linda Starke, Hilary French ISBN: 0-393-31998-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: state of sadness
Comment: Reading State of the World 22 took me out of my cushy frivolous life and made me really think. I used to be of the frame of mind that sources of energy and the aids problem were nothing to do with me and someone else could deal with it and anyway to tell the truth it sort of bored me.Each time I read this book I would find myself crying as I turned the pages, it really is sad how down the world has gone and how much further it still has to fall if we dont change our ways of thinking. This book puts all the information on sustainable issues and world problems in straightforward english with interesting graphics and statistics in easy to read graphs so that even I (not quite a brain surgeon) can grasp the information.State of the world is not just a book moaning about what we have done wrong it also explains the solutions and what each person can to do help after all we are the cause and we can help be the cure.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good but one sided.
Comment: I give good marks to each of the scientists providing their viewpoints. Each was thoughtfull and concise in his or her viewpoints.
Since 1984, the State of the World reports have been published, and since 1984 the overall tone has been one of impending doom avoided only by the most drastic of human changes.
If you picked up this book expecting to get an authoritative understanding of environmental and population trends, then you have made a big mistake. This book tells one side of the story- clearly the most attractive as it pulls on that side of us that feels lost in a world we don't understand. If you *really* want to find out both sides of the story, you should search out the counterpoints in scientific litterature. Kudos to you for trying to find out everything about the subject before going on. I recomend Earth Report 2000- a counter publication written specifically in response to this book.
After reading both books I am quite convinced that, as a percentage of all there is to know about the planet, we basically understand as much as we did 40 years ago. The information provided in this book is based on theories that, as a young human race, we can not validate for many years to come.
Read this book for ideas, but not answers. That is unless you are a doomsayer looking for an amen experience- in which case this baby is right up your alley.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pardon Me if I Protest
Comment: Lester Brown et al have written an alarmist book. I grew up during the years when the word "environment" came to have meaning. Over the decades, I have read a number of books on the state of our environment.
Lester Brown et al write what amounts to saying that we are "going to Hell in a handbasket." The truth of the matter is that each age thinks it is on the "eve of destruction." (Don't remember that song? Okay, you are not as old as I am and
you do not remember how seriously we took this matter when this song came out.)
BTW, the picture painted by Lester Brown et al is one-sided. For example, I noted an AP article about the thickening of the Antarctic ice which means that the polar ice caps are not shrinking. The reader may not expect this type of information from this book. If one looked at _World Balance Sheet_ among other books, one would not see this type of driven agenda.
The world has always known people who were concerned about the shape of the environment. Some BCE writers are known.So are we on the "eve of destruction"?
or are we having to make decisions as we have so often before?
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Title: A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr ISBN: 0679772677 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Rainbow of Gangs : Street Cultures in the Mega-City by Diego Vigil ISBN: 0292787499 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie ISBN: 0805060162 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: State of the World 2002 by Worldwatch Institute ISBN: 0393322793 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: State of the World 2003 by Worldwatch Institute, The Worldwatch Institute ISBN: 0393323862 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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