Brilliant
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This book was amazing, written in a lucid, succinct way that will inspire thought and action. Its easy to get to grips with, has many enlightening anecdotes and personal experiences, and is often shocking. Read it and enjoy it!
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A pleasure to read
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Simms has managed to write an essay on a difficult, complex and pressing issue in extremely accessible terms which are a pleasure to read and can be unequivocally recommended to anyone interested in poverty and the state of the environment.
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Makes ecological debt accessible
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This is an exceptionally engaging and human book for a very weighty set of issues. I bought this book for several friends at xmas who I have trouble engaging in what is the biggest human rights and inequality issue of our time - climate change. This book really ties in the human impact story to the climate change agenda. It's amazing how many people haven't made this link. Andrew Simms writes in an exceptionally engaging and imaginative way. It took me a couple of chapters to warm up, but by the end I was totally hooked - reading for pleasure, not education and writing my list of who else to buy it for.
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Disappointing presentation of important ideas
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The book presents novel and important ideas concepts in global evironmental and economic issues.
Having read the reviews which hinted that the book was written with verve I was also hoping for some inspirational reading but found it monotonous in style with much repetition.
In its preface it indicates the book is in two halves, the first outlining the problems and the second outlining possible solutions. It felt however that the former occupy 99% of the book and there is little thought in the way of practical or realistic solutions.
Overall I thought that the book opened up some important concepts in terms of Global Commons but didnt get much further than exploring the current problems.
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A damn good read
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Most books about global warming - important though the issue is - tend to be a little on the worthy side, and deeply depressing. This book is neither. There are worrying facts, but the verve with which Andrew Simms writes, the stories he includes, as well as the photographs and bizarre illustrations, make this one of the key texts for the debate, and the most readable. It not only deserves to be read - not least for the important introduction to a whole new idea (eco-debt) - but it actually will be.
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