| THE WORLD AS IT IS: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress Chris Hedges New York: Nation Books, April 2011 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-56858-640-3 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-56858-640-X | 350pp. | HC | $26.99 | |
| Page 6: | "'The ways they can isolate protests and prevent it from [becoming] a contagion are formidable,' he said." |
| Number error: S/B "them". (Or make the subject "protest".) |
| Pages 23-4: | "They do not explain reality, as stereotypes attempt to, but replace reality." |
| Writing: S/B "as stereotypes attempt to do". |
| Page 27: | "The brutal reality of expanding foreign occupation and harsher and harsher forms of control are the tinder of Islamic fundamentalism, insurgences, and terrorism." |
| Number error: S/B "is". |
| Page 31: | "His stark portrayals of the filth and squalor of urban slums awakened the conscience of a nation." |
| Writing: S/B "awoke". |
| Page 32: | "...that turns the abstraction of fact into a human flesh..." |
| Word choice: S/B "a human face" (or, arguably, "human flesh" without the article; but this is the worse option IMO.) |
| Page 293: | "Methane may asphyxiate the human species." |
| This is one global-warming threat for which the argument "X was much higher in the past" really does make sense — for if atmospheric methane could suffocate humans, it would have suffocated other oxygen-breathing animals when it was much higher than it will get in future. |
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