This giant tome is enormously researched, and, though it does its level best to end on an optimistic note, the weight of evidence falling on the side of Big Business Fucking Everyone Over is, for me, just too much. That said, it is I think a book that everyone should read, because the sheer enormity of the problem facing the planet by our determined race to put profit above all is genuinely frightening. Klein, rather more hopeful than I am, thinks grassroots activism is a way to get those bastards on a choke chain of sustainable behaviour, and all credit to her: she's made some convincing arguments, using examples where such activism has achieved results. But the smug, determined ignorance of what scientists and other rational people are up against... well. Grassroots activism is all well and good, but it's about time we started hauling out the guillotines.