3.5, rounding up to 4 stars. it's an odd experience, reading this for the first time at a time when Trump is President of the US instead of Bush. From my (admittedly outsider) perspective, things do not seem to have improved. Ignorance, anti-science, and corruption go on apace. What I found slightly irritating though was Gore's refusal to place blame where it ultimately belongs: with the electorate. He can bang on about his TV theory all he likes, and there's probably some truth in it, but the determination of the US electorate as a whole to be screwed over by their politicians is part of this equation that no-one's really looking at. Ignorance is a choice, and you can have bribes and threats and propaganda hung about you but you still have to choose not to think, and large proportions of society seem to be all to happy to do so.