The subtitle of State of the World 2015 by the Worldwatch Institute is "Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability," but they might as well have called it "Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic." The book describes the various environmental problems and their current (alarming) status - familiar to those of us who study these matters - but the overall theme is how weak and ineffectual our current political and industrial leaders are in addressing the problems. From disbelief to greenwashing to outright fraud, the growth-oriented champions who actually have a chance at making some of the needed changes give lip service to environmentalism, but they are very far from actually engaging in it. Worldwatch makes the case that capitalism itself (at least in its current incarnation of grow, grow, grow) is a systemic part of the problem.
Rather dry, as one might expect from a serious tome written by a committee of scientists, but very important and worth the time to read.
Highly recommended.
I obtained a copy of this book free of charge in exchange for a review. The image above links to the book's Amazon page.
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