A tremendous disappointment. The first half of the book recites the same old litany of distortions and half-truths popular with extreme environmentalists. The second half offers promises but disappoints. Don't look here for new ideas that will help with balancing economic growth and the environment. The few ideas are not new. The few examples, though individually good, are surrogates for supporting the environmental agenda of the authors. The authors extol the ant for living an environmentally productive life: Humans, on the other hand, destroy. The authors fail to mention that ants never wrote the Iliad, painted the Sistine Chapel, or composed La Traviata.