This book is phenomenal. Kath Weston does a great job of digging in deeper at why the current responses posed to climate change are ineffective. They are based around keeping industry’s discourse, and with that discourse surviving, then we will not be able to actually respond to climate change.

This book is a breath of fresh air in terms of arming those who read it with the necessary knowledge and tools to move forward in the right direction towards radical cultural change. I felt inspired and awakened by the end of the book, and truthfully during the last chapter was almost moved to tears. I was in awe at the the fact that I had finally found what I was looking for in this book – a blueprint for social change. It finally didn’t overwhelm me or leave me feeling depressed. It inspired me to think of how I wanted to see our culture and country, and what could be done to get there. The daunting task of changing our culture loses its menace through her knowledge and experience. It was a great book that fully addressed the issues we face equally with solutions.

My first question is to think, are we just pushing capitalism on them in the form of “saving the environment”? How do we think this will possibly work? Does no one care about the cultural that existed before we came here, and who is going to stop us from erasing it completely? (We, as in Westernized culture seeking economic development.)