Can't get enough! - Rated 
This is a great book - I did not want to put it down. It explains in a simple and insightful way what is happening to us and why we are on a self destruct path. I love the references to our evolution. It would be good if they could give every slimmer a copy of chapter 2 on enough food! Highly recommended reading!
Good ideas well presented - Rated 
This is a really fun book looking at the old idea of the 'Everything in Moderation' handed down to us from the ancient Greeks and developed by everyone from John Stuart Mill to Oscar Wilde. The author does a really good job of presenting this simple idea, with a lightness of touch (as book reviewers often seem to say) and humour. Plus plenty of real world examples of how it should and shouldn't be done.
Not life changing, but I've never read a book that is (although lots of them say they are on the back cover), but fun and thought provoking. You won't be disappointed.
Not just another 'green' book - Rated
So Hayley, you've not actually read the book? Seems an odd way to critic it. I have read it, and valued it because it helped to answer something that baffled me - why we carry on consuming everything when we've known for decades that it's so disastrous. If it were just another 'green' book then I'd agree with you Hayley, but it's full of enlightening new science discovery about why human brains get confused into wanting ever more of everything in the 21st century - and crucially, how we can stop doing it. As a previous poster said, this should prove a culture-changing book. So I think it's more than justified in publishing. Give it a read, Hayley, and I reckon you might change your mind. It's entertaining, too, I think I should add.
James
Guys, Come On - Rated
I have no doubt that this is a very well written, very interesting book, but in buying this book, you are doing exactly what the author is warning us against. Think about it, do you really need this book? It is telling you what you deep down already know, and reading this book isn't going to instantly make you stop buying all the things you don't need, only you can do that!
Keep recycling :]]
Enough of always wanting more and better - Rated
A brilliant book reflecting on the sheer stupidity of our endless striving for better and more when we already have more than enough. We have evolved into a race chasing the impossible dream that ends up with us all stressed out, depleting our resources, unhappy and unfulfilled. The author argues we need to develop a cultural sense of "enoughness" and to be happy with what we HAVE rather than always striving for more and better.
I couldn't put this book down and all the way through was saying, "yes, spot on" again and again and again. Having read the book I doubt any of us will instantly change our ways, but just maybe we will reflect on our culture and modus operandi and think a bit more carefully about what is REALLY important in our lives.
The book is not a dull, environmentalist tome. Rather it is full of humour and light-heartedness. A truly excellent read for western man in the 21st century. I suspect this book will be seen in years to come as the book that woke us up and brought us to our senses in much the way that Rachael Carson's "Silent Spring" did back in the 1960s.
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