Doom and Gloom

So how many Doom and Gloom environmental books are there out there anyway? My definition of Doom and Gloom is pretty loose... let me know what you think.

Well in some respects there's Earth if you want a fiction example. Well researched though.

Looking at either fiction or nonfiction, have you noticed a changing trend in the tone of environmental books lately? It seems to me many of them have moved away from a doom and gloom scenario and are a bit more pragmatic and/or hopeful... or at least the titles/synopses that I've bothered to read. Has anyone else noticed this?

Yes, I've noticed it. People can't keep selling the same dire warnings year after year, or even new dire warnings. The market for that stuff got saturated a while ago. We all heard that the world is coming to an end (yawn). Either you start talking about what can be done about it or people change the channel. Old news doesn't get ink.

Do you think it will be effective?

I think Hot, Flat and Crowded was the best I've read in a very long time. I'd consider it gloom and doom. The book describes plenty of solutions and actions to turn things around.

I just feel that us earth citizens don't have the common sense enough to get together, make some collective sacrifices, and change things.