Well that's certainly a helpful review. If it's such an ecological drain, I'd be interested to know what you find so problematic about it as a text. As I indicated, it's more polemical than a careful academic study so there's some fuzziness with some of the points, but I think the points he makes are altogether pretty coherent and rely on a range of other kinds of studies. In many ways, the problem is less that he makes points that can't be validated elsewhere than that many of the points are made elsewhere and aren't exactly new; he just presents them in a way that might be more readable for a general public. Compared to work like that of Michael Pollin or even Eric Schlosser, he's much more engaged with the implications in the global south and for the labor movement more generally. I think that, at the moment, having a public intellectual who brings that perspective to the larger discussion is filling a valuable niche. Disabuse me of this notion rather than engaging in what is pretty much ad hominem critique.
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