Scan barcode
ash93's review
2.0
I was looking forward to a learning opportunity, for an eye-opening novel on how humans are impacting natural habitats worldwide. Instead, a majority of this book was spent on animals discussing amongst themselves how to break the awful truth to humans and tip-toeing around our fragile egos (a point which struck the right chord initially but which was too often repeated by the end). Too much was avoided on account of the human response - which seemed, to me, to contradict the whole point of the book and to show little faith in its readership. If I'm reading this story, it's because I'm EAGER to know the hard truth! TELL me what we're doing to the environment, and what we can do to change course! Instead Ralph Nader's animals were too worried we would "become upset and offended" if we were blamed for the annihilation of species, the destruction of habitats, etc. This worry took up more space in the book than any other fact related to the animal kingdom, polLution, or climate change. Nader chose to focus instead on strange, irrelevant topics such as bonobo sex and beastiality.... I'm not kidding.
Whatever nuggets of wisdom existed among these pages were lost amid boring and useless information. The section on Global Warming was less than a page in length.
For a book that was written to shed light on the impact humanity has on nature, the only truth I came away with is that bonobos are weird. It would be more worthwhile, I think, to watch BBC's "Planet Earth."
Whatever nuggets of wisdom existed among these pages were lost amid boring and useless information. The section on Global Warming was less than a page in length.
For a book that was written to shed light on the impact humanity has on nature, the only truth I came away with is that bonobos are weird. It would be more worthwhile, I think, to watch BBC's "Planet Earth."
More...