Juniper introduces the concept of 'ecological debt', as opposed to financial debt. Nice to read, but, I'd think, not really the point of the book. Juniper groups his 95 solutions in major themes such as economics, globalization and food, but instead of giving solutions, he often gives biographical anecdotes to back up his solutions, which make the book into something of a memoir. The format of the book is neither here nor there. One tidbit of info which was new to me was some scientists' classification of the current geological epoch as the Anthropocene, from the Greek for 'human', anthropos. My primary issue with books like these is that I can't help but think they're like preaching to the choir and he starts of the book with 20 pages of telling the reader how bad the current situation really is. Juniper quit Friends of the Earth in early 2008. Juniper was vice chair of Friends of the Earth international and his 95 solutions mirror Martin Luther's 95 theses stapled to the church door in Wittenberg in 1517.
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