Reviews for The virtuous vice

The average rating for The virtuous vice based on 4 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-24 00:00:00 Kristi Rowell This book was my first look at the sorrow that is our inaction. If we had followed Carter into that brave new world back then, the small incremental changes we could have made would not have been even noticed in our everyday lives and would have given us an almost 40 year jump on the climate crisis. There were smart people who saw what was coming and we failed to listen.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-20 00:00:00 R C Thompson Jr 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.

Review # 3 was written on 2016-09-24 00:00:00 Jacob Conrad This book was my first look at the sorrow that is our inaction. If we had followed Carter into that brave new world back then, the small incremental changes we could have made would not have been even noticed in our everyday lives and would have given us an almost 40 year jump on the climate crisis. There were smart people who saw what was coming and we failed to listen.

Review # 4 was written on 2012-05-20 00:00:00 Jill Davis 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.