Banking on the Environment: Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe Book

This was an encouraging read close to a decade ago, and it's mostly an extension of Sachs' ideas on how the end poverty, not just in the (still, barely!) wealthiest country in the world, the US, but globally. Even then, he was sounding an alarm call for us to finally do something about the problem of population taxing our little planet, as well as to cut down the usage rate of all of our natural resources, switch to sustainable living, and greatly decrease current levels of pollution. (I remember appreciating all the statistics on population growth in countries least able to take care of those populations, and remember wondering in high school how anybody could be against birth control including abortion after reading Ehrlich's (The Population Bomb.

What is most troubling in how few of these cost-effective strategies to improve the standard of living globally appear implemented, including taking steps that would finally help us get a grasp on malaria in Subsaharan African (that, as a corporate Big Pharma head once admitted to a group I was in, is just too much a "poor person's disease" to warrant proper funding.)

Still, looking through this, I'd recommend it even today as providing some helpful and hopeful suggestions for a new American Revolution!