The virtuous vice Book

Originally written October 15, 2007

If ever there was a book to inform on the environmental crises at hand, it's this one.

Yale University dean and professor James Gustave Speth presents a book chock full of facts and statistics showing the slow decline to our current situation with global warming and other environmental dangers the world is currently facing. He extensively informs on pollution, forest preservation, animal extinction, anticipated "healing" of the ozone layer, subtle melting of Arctic lands, the known Montreal and Kyoto Protocols (Wikipedia them) and so much more.

And Speth did his research, too. Part one alone contains 175 footnotes, referencing a section of notes in the back of the book containing more than 360 sources used for information to compile the book. (Talk about a term paper from hell!) Of course, it helps that Speth works at Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and was once president of the World Resources Institute. And that's not even mentioning his winning of Japan's Blue Planet Prize for his efforts with global warming. Safe to say, he knows more about the topic than I do.

And this isn't just a 'history-of'...it's also a 'how-to', showing the ways the largest government to a single person can make a difference in the climate and environment. He even provides a nice roster of resources for those who didn't quite get enough of the book.

Mean for green? Then read some Red.