Not quite as “we came far too close to this” as its predecessor, so a bit easier to get through. Has some interesting ideas for a post-ecological-collapse approach to legal liability. But I kept failing to engage with the main character, and by the end, the various legal maneuvers and parties involved got me confused; I understood the ending point, but was still a bit unclear as to how exactly it got there. Not sure if that was the book, or my difficulty in engaging.