When I first see the title of this book "The Collapse of Western Civilization" , I thought it would be a book about the social or politics, but not environment. However, after reading the first chapter, I find it interesting that it talks about the recent issue of envrionment-- people are strongly influencing nature. This is kind of response to the last reading of Kolbert, but it is focus on the problems and pollutions which human noticed, which is different with Kolbert's. Although it is interesting to read a view to the future about environment and some truth of the issues nowadays are revealed in front of me, it is still a little bit hard for me to concentrate on because it is a scientific book.