Stop Saving the Planet!

An Environmentalist Manifesto

By: Jenny Price

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

"Pithy, funny, exasperated, and informed... You cannot read a more important hundred pages than Stop Saving the Planet!" (Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands)

We've been "saving the planet" for decades...and environmental crises just get worse. All this hybrid driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing - and low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences.

Why aren't we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists?

Jenny Price says Enough already! with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous. She challenges you, corporate sustainability officers, and the EPA to think and act completely anew - and to start right now - to ensure a truly habitable future.

©2021 Jenny Price (P)2021 Tantor

interesting.

I liked it, as there was quite a bit of interesting content. However, the author is totally naive on economics.
The reason why I did not give fewer stars, is because I did not want to tank a book with so few reviews, and because I still found it useful.

Loved it

Brave and insightful. Calling out the reality of our time, not just on the environmental issues but their relationship to economic and social issues. For anyone seeking truth.

Will definitely teach this book

In my buddhish economics class. The great American tradition: ignoring the root cause—unethical economy while championing the individual choice as the only solution to everything

Just because anyone CAN write a book, doesn't mean they SHOULD

The whole book is less than three hours long... and I just couldn't take it. Written in the language of a gen-a blogger, this idealistic manifesto offers nothing, just thr rantings of someone frustrated by not being listened to at dinner parties. This book offers no reasonable or helpful suggestions, and then it doubles down and offers no hope. Of course it would be great if large companies stopped caring only about profits, but this earth will literally fry before that happens. It would be great if governments protected their people, but first they'd have to be free from relying on thr corporations.

I am not suggesting we do nothing; I'm an environmental consultant and frequently work in the places this book mentions that experience the worst environmental injustice. No, what companies and governments are currently doing isn't working, but this idealized dribble isn't either.

Don't bother with this book. Write your senators and representatives instead. Or better yet, go be one and start to fight that way. She's right, recycling your household items won't make a dent, but we need to keep fighting to save the planet - we just need to see the big picture and fight for better solutions.