Bigger print and plenty of whitespace make this book physically more imposing than it really needs to be, perhaps a deliberate attempt to give it more “weight“!
It is a very American exploration of what is currently “wrong” with our approach to progress (in many fields) and I think many of these failings can be more widely applied elsewhere in the western world (such as the UK).
The book paints a good picture of the results of an alternative approach, seeing abundance, growth and progress as good things that improve lives, and the environment and make a good case that a “de-growth” strategy is something of a doom loop. One thinks irresistibly of the Culture’s description of its own past as the “Age of Scarcity” in Iain M. Banks novels, and that does seem to be very much where we are now.
What is less well laid out in the book is a real plan (or even much in the way of concrete actions) to actually change mindsets and do something that can achieve all those worthwhile goals. Even so, it is a worthwhile read just to lay out what might be possible and portray an optimistic future of general betterment rather than a right wing view of limited resources going to the highest bidder. Perhaps the hopeful antidote against the miserabalist worldview that it is hard to avoid these days.