Honestly, though at times the book as drier then tha Aral Sea described, I enjoyed it. Al Gore gave very powerful insight on a lot of key issues that have been discussed in my Ap Environmental class, which is the calss I had to read the book for. Gore defended a lot of what I have heard with more specific, stronger evidence and data. Not to mention he backed up all the problems he wrote about with tanglible ways to improve the situation. I would highly recomend this book for the extremee environmentalist who is also interested in politics. But if one does not enjoy learning of the distructivness and blindness of our economy (and people themselves), I don't recoment it to them. This book is not for the weak of heart, but the strong in ambition and care. For a teacher, I recomend this book to be read a longside any Envoronmental textbook.