i started reading the uninhabitable earth after reading a review that compared it to silent spring but at page six i'm almost ready to bail. on page six he says i'm not an environmentalist, and don't even think of myself as a nature person. he goes on to say he goes for economic growth over preservation of nature, that humans are on top of the food chain and it's ok to flaunt it, and to draw a "moral" boundary between the apex species and the other animals, and he finds it "offensive to women and people of color that all of a sudden there's talk of extending human-rights-like legal protection to chimps, apes, and octopuses, just a generation or two after we finally broke the white-male monopoly on legal personhood. i think the comparison with silent spring is offensive to rachel carson, and all the animal and vegetal life she spoke so passionately for. he's only bothered that the human systems are self-destructing.
i'm happy to leave the best-seller at page 6.