Reading

Well today Ive been doing some reading for my environmental management course; gotthrough a chapter this afternoon. Unfortunately this text has a very poor first chapter. I'm sure that it isnt particularly relevant to the rest of the course, but it doesnt exactly fill me with a great deal of hope that Mr. John Brady has edited the rest of the book to a decent standard. It's basically an introduction, but it is filled with factual inconsistencies (the first line states the the Earth is 10 Billion years old!). It goes on to adopt the same old falacy of arctic ice melt affecting sea level and is far too heavily laced with 'lovelockism's' for my liking. Still, maybe chapter 2 will be better; it is afterall, supposed to be a book on environmental management, not on the sad hopeless future we are all heading for. There must be some light at the end of the tunnel or they wouldn't have bothered with the book, surely?