Review of Sabin and his Reviewers

After reading The Bet by Paul Sabin for the third time, I think I'm ready to move to a new text for ESS 210.  The advantages of the text include that 1) it's easily accessible, because it is written in an approachable narrative style, 2) it provides a brief history of environmental history and politics, through the context of the Ehrlich-Simon debates, and 3) the book sets the stage for current environmental debates and for the Sustainable Development goals that we address next in the class.  While no text will delight each and every student, there might exist other recent reading materials in Environmental Studies that provide either more excitement for readers or more depth in a review of the environmental context we deal with today.

I reviewed Wharples review of Sabin previously.  This economist's review is entertaining, and I recommend reading it.  He feels so slighted by Sabin, who is otherwise widely reviewed as being overly non-positional.