Books
“Bold, dramatic, and visionary.”
Jorgen Randers, Professor emeritus of climate strategy, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo. Co-author The Limits to Growth (1972) and author 2052 – A Global Forecast for the next Forty Years (2012)
“Reading this book felt like having some smart, funny, and passionate people round for a dinner party where they explain things in a way that gets the point across while also being witty and engaging.”
Dr. Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, Associate Director of Research, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Melbourne, Australia
“This book clearly outlines stark truths about impacts of climate change that political leaders of all stripes are unwilling to deliver because the news about what we face is so unsettling. Highly recommended!”
David Berry, Director, Sustainable & Resilient Resources Roundtable
“An engaging and unsettling little book that makes a powerful case for urgent and fundamental social change.”
Mark B. Brown, Professor of Political Science, California State University, Sacramento, USA
“This book by a committed environmentalist has tough messages for the Western conservation movement. Too many of the ideas advanced as solutions to the challenge of climate change are sideshows. The most important reforms need to start within the global North.”
Peter McCawley, Honorary Associate Professor, Indonesia Project, Arndt-Corden Dept of Economics, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU, Canberra
“The analysis in this remarkable book is straightforward and outspoken. We urgently need much more of this kind of conservation literature, which is radical in the best sense of the word.”
Pierre L. Ibisch, Professor for Nature Conservation, Research professorship for “Ecosystem-based sustainable development”, Centre for Economics and Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany
“Do you avoid palm oil in your biscuits? Sign petitions to protect orangutans? So do I – and this book is for us. Carefully referenced, it traces the tricks of neoliberal “common sense” that convince us to trust REDD schemes, palm oil certification, or imaginary “zero deforestation.” For all who care about the burning forests, Maxton-Lee gives us the cold water treatment. Individual gestures will not suffice.”
Kerryn Higgs, University Associate, University of Tasmania; Associate Member, Club of Rome
“Bernice Maxton-Lee presents an unvarnished analysis why conservation and sustainable development efforts have failed to protect Indonesia’s forests. This important book is based on a critical political analysis that reveals the disastrous subordination to the Western neoliberal economic growth paradigm.”
Claude Martin, Former Director General of WWF International and author of “On the Edge – The State and Fate of the World’s Tropical Rainforests”