Great book with a stellar thesis and with a detailed (and credible) navigation of multiple fields. As you read this book you have nonstop ideas thrown at you and the majority are framed differently and connected more fluidly than usual. I found that he brought a refreshingly complex (rather than the simplitistic rich-Americans-heading-back-to-the-homestead) view to both environmental problems (especially the implication for the third world) and potential "solutions". I had one stylistic gripe - the author is successful academic and much of the book has an academic feel - in that context I was a little annoyed by the sections in the book where he felt it necessary to reduce the issue to a single person for the sake of having a story. Another Canadian book that should be more broadly available the US (great gift Mom!) ( )

I really enjoyed The Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon. It's a book I wish I could have written. It surveys a diverse landscape of topics related to the complex systems of the modern world, covering economics, politics, the environment, the human brain, and many other threads and linkages, all to develop the central idea of the increasing need for ingenuity in our increasingly complex world. Very interesting reading. ( )

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