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Title: Bleakness based upon an unproved theory
Review: The crux of the authors' argument is based upon a subtle assumption (in the preface, no less!). Once you accept that, then their "we're all doomed and nothing we can do about it" thesis acquires some weight and becomes truly depressing.My thought is: if we're preprogrammed to be the way we are, and the way we are makes us destined to destroy the earth and ourselves, then why write the book?This was really a dark, unrelenting journey of hopelessness. What I don't get is the other reviews: what is there to "get"? I'm being told I can't do anything to change this person's horribly bleak vision of destruction. I'm just "made" that way.I'll stick with Edward Abbey and try to do something constructive in my world.
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