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Focus' more on Environment vs. Economy.

My problem with the book is that while Buddhist economics it about 'do no harm', it means not just the environment, but also other people and animals, but instead the book focuses mainly on the environment. I wished the book had shown Buddhist economics being used in business decisions, and how it can be justified in making tough choices. For instance, you are the head of GM and can build automated cars and trucks that will be safer on the road causing fewer accidents causing death, but your product will put millions who driver for their job out of work like cabbie/trucker/delivery person/etc. Instead the book deviates to telling the reader to do things that have no relevance to why I picked up the book like rolling down your car window over using AC while driving (which is a outdated advise as studies have shown the gas you burn by the drag of an open car window is on par to using AC).

So I can only give the book 2/5 as it is not bad, but I feel like it deviates to much from the topic it's title implies it will cover.