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The Sheep Look Up
The Sheep Look Up
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July 15, 2014
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August 1, 2014
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Food and crops, water and scarce resources—all are undergoing major stresses due to human incompetence an…more

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Cameron
Sep 03, 2011 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: dystopian
Polluted-world dystopia, where processed food is poisonous with additives and a stroll outdoors requires the use of supplied oxygen. Fair premise, but it comes across as a hippie manifesto. There is very little plot movement until the last few chapters of the book; the remainder involves the author crying about how we are polluting Mother Earth and soap-boxing about what could happen if we don't stop. Just the idea that we could permanently scar this planet is a pointed example of man's (and Bru ...more
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