An average Indian radical (naturally also an environmentalist) wanders into a bookshop. He slips his cellphone into the pocket of his wrinkle-free shirt, and searchingly peruses bookshelves. The Enemy of Nature. Aah, he nods. Seems worth a dekho.

On the back-cover, he notices that Istvan Meszaros (who?) has praised the book. Also, Walden Bello (yes! yes!): "Full of insights into the relationship between ecological degradation and capitalist expansion