Eco-Denial; A Moment on the Earth by Gregg Easterbrook

Gregg Easterbrook begins his 745-page opus with a summary of what he calls “ecorealism,” which is essentially the view that the war to preserve a habitable earth is all but won or will be by the year 2000, and that those who won it ought now to be upbeat and happy. Alas, they are not. Six hundred and ninety-eight pages later he zooms back from outer space, having greened Mars, trashed all manner of what he deems to be insufficiently optimistic thinking, and created what he calls a...