I am penning this review — one day past due — in a plane 35,000 feet above the Atlantic. Had I followed my original plans and traveled earlier, I would have had the rare pleasure of submitting a review on time. Unfortunately, a nod to our post-9/11 world kept me out of the skies on America's Independence Day. It would somehow be comforting if we could ascribe this world to the evil or greed of a few and believe that it would be over when those few are captured or removed from office. But Paul and Anne Ehrlich's One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future suggests a different reality. Although not claiming to address the roots of terrorism per se, the authors make a compelling case that the combination of population growth, rampant consumption, and environmental degradation seriously threatens the liveli- hoods of the have-nots today and will increasingly threaten the haves in the none-too-distant future. Insecurity, hunger, and the recognition that one is entitled to a better world can breed a certain rage that will eventually find a voice.
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