content: If you have heard Weisman speak on NPR there is no reason to read this book. If you want to espouse the eco-cause you need to back up ideas for change with data, drawings, annotated biblography.For a journalist, Weisman is too uncritical in his analysis of the problems found at Gaviotas. There may be wonderful things happening in the llanos (especially the reforestation), but little of it seems capable of transfer to other settings. His anti-capitalist bias keeps him from doing cost/benefit thnking, much less analysis. Also, this has far too much "dialog" reporting, so that it is neither fiction nor journalism.