Gaia's wager is a gamble that we cannot, in the long run, win, but cannot afford to lose. It is a wager with nature that human ingenuity can overcome or evade the limits to the way the world works. Modern society must adapt its goals of growth and development to those processes, relationships, and limits inherent in Gaia and beyond human ability to manage or change. The value of Gary Bryner's book is enhanced by suggestions for further reading and selected web sites for relevant issues. Strongly recommended to all persons concerned with the sustainability of our present techno-economic way of life and to all others who should be.

Lynton K. Caldwell, Indiana University

A useful and critical overview of global green politics.

Future Survey

Bryner's book provides a clearly written, comprehensively researched, and exhaustively detailed account of recent American and international environmental politics, public policy, and law, with a particular focus on issues related to climate change. This book would be quite a useful resource for anyone delving into the intricacies of environmental policy.

Labour/Le Travail: Journal Of Canadian Labour Studies

Professor Bryner's book does an excellent job assessing society's political capacity to make the changes necessary to achieve ecological sustainability. Those who study social movements and environmental politics within American and global contexts will find the author's work useful.

Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of Southern California