While sometimes reading books about super-philosphical topics like the purported "Death of Environmentalism" is painful and obnoxious, reading this book won't make you suffer at the mercy of too many large words but rather at the mercy of well-thought out arguments against the status quo. If you look at environmentalists today and see a bunch of goodhearted people who are not managing to effect much change and you want to know why, read this book. If you're interested in theories behind the environmental movement and wide-ranging analysis of encompasssing theories about the direction the world is headed, this book is for you. There are no serious solutions in this book; it is not a primer on how changing three light bulbs to compact fluorescents will ensure a good future for the next seven generations. Instead, it is a warning that we are living in an ever-changing world and adhering to policies that introduce incremental change will not allow the survival of society the way it stands. Instead, the authors advocate a vision, a big dream for the future, inspiring people with dreams rather than visions of the apocalypse to push us towards a future that can be realized as opposed to a vision of the far-fetched past that we're barely hanging on to.