Paul Gilding

Maybe the coronavirus will usher in the Great Disruption that Gilding forecast back in 2011.

Toyed with just two stars on this. Nothing new...nothing earth-shattering...nothing that will convince anybody he's right, and his solutions are amateurishly obvious...therefore pretty much unlikely until ultimately forced.

I get his passion, and his personal contribution. This book didn't capture me, though.

Gilding could have said what he wanted to say in a few punchy chapters and spared us from a drawn-out, data poor, verbose read interspersed with cliches, corny humor and self-aggrandizement. His book lacks credibility and does little for the environmental cause he's so desperate to promote. Struggled to finish it.

Gilding is the latest in a long line of doomsayers: Chicken Little, Malthus, The Club of Rome, Paul Ehrlich, IPCC, .... It is unlikely his thesis will be the first proven correct.