When reading the first part of the book, it feels like the author is trying to correct his many years of disservice to the environment as he helped to develop the oil industry. The book makes it clear that man's ego is destroying the planet for no real benefit and Chomat coins the term "egosystem" to describe this. He recounts stories of people he has met from "non-westernized" countries not being able to comprehend why the western lifestyle is so focused on exponential growth and how it could easily be perceived that cars are the dominant species on earth.

This book looks pretty interesting. It appears to be 15% factoid and 85% the-West-is-killing-everything-beautiful-and-good. The author seems to be a bit better with the blame game than the numbers game, though.

-janelane, energy-tech