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Summary: You Need to Read This. Period.
Review: Already a third of the planet's "natural wealth" has been lost.If everyone lived as we do in the US, it would take four earths to support us. In the last 50 years - with the intensive use of pesticides - the US has doubled the amount of crops lost to pests. Three-fourths of all plant species have become extinct since 1900. Environmental disasters have left 80 million people as refugees. The number of people living on $2 a day in the world has risen by 50% in the last 20 years. Genetically modified crops have farmers using more herbicides and pesticides, not less. 90% of the Earth's dwindling fresh water supply is consumed by industry alone. The top 1% of US households possesses more wealth than the entire bottom 95%. Commercial banks, not the central government, create the build of America's currency. The arms trade is America's most heavily subsidized industry. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera... Concise, well-documented, and full of great references and links, discussions in this book range from nanotechnology to natural farming; from biomimicry to the patenting of life; from the future of oil and the hydrogen economy; from ecological footprints to global equity accounting schemes; from the arms trade to peace tools; from religion to sustainability; from eugenics to intuition and creativity; from antibiotics to genetic experimentation; from Christianity to Islam; from increasing economic inequality to universal basic income grants; from plutonium to persistent organic pollutants; and draws from a wide variety of sources, from Bill Clinton to Hildegard of Bingen. Were the book printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper, I would dare say it foot the recognition-of-global-ecocrisis-and-response bill perfectly. Oh, wait, it was. Another Disinformation Mindbomb!
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