Do we really want a green planet? We know how to fix it, but can't get ourselves to change. We only focus on reusing and recycling, but forget the first and most important part, REDUCE!

The author correctly and eloquently describes the conundrum, but gives up completely at the point of looking around for the solution. Instead, he lists a few dozen already-discredited ideas which he himself (in the rest of his book) explains at great length, won't work. The obvious point that humans will need to learn to adapt to the high-carbon, perhaps hot-Earth that is an inevitable outgrowth of the conundrum, is totally unexplored. Our technology should (and will) shift from conservation and decarbonization to mitigation, by necessity, once the truly intractable depth of the very real conundrum reaches the mass consciousness.