Review 260: Environment

Environment by Rolf Halden
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

This was a depressing book. The words used were particularly dire and full of doom. Extreme language. And yet very informative, particularly about chemicals invented and used, then subsequently banned, although not all. 

Is this the way to change behavior? I’m not sure people want to listen to just the negative side…what are the solutions? How do we improve?  There was barely a mention, a few sentences is all, and not nearly enough. 

We are the environment, it is us, not separate from. The plastics we love are now us as well. 

How do we move forward? Where do we go from here?

I waited entirely too long to read this book but I almost didn’t read it entirely due to the language, the negativity is seeping. Yes, we’ve done stupid things are a society, continue to do so, but also have done great things as well. There are solutions, people are working on this, I want to hear about some of that.

This book is in the Object Lessons series.

Thanks to Bloomsbury Academic and NetGalley for an uncorrected electronic advance review copy of this book.