Cousins weekend

I had an awesome time last weekend with four of the five cousins on my dad's side that I grew up with all in attendance at the family cabin. In between bonfires, boat rides and bar crawls, I managed to get a little reading done, finishing two books since my last post:
The Art of War which although I can see why it's an ageless classic, I personally get way to caught up in the translation and notes on the translation to appreciate it fully. I would have sworn that I had already read (at least in audiobook form) The World Without Us, but too much of it was unfamiliar for that to be true. I know I heard him give at least three long interviews on NPR and other public radio/podcasts. It's a fascinating book that's right up in my top-tier of books to include in my reeducation camp curriculum... My only real regret is that Weisman doesn't argue more strongly that we must reduce human population - dramatically if we intend to keep consuming at an ever-increasing rate. He seems to acknowledge that humans are past our carrying capacity, and several chapters show some of the many ways the planet would be better off if we disappeared sooner rather than later, but he doesn't point those two facts right directly at the conclusion, he just slips it in an afterthought. Hopefully, mentally planting that seed in the fertile mental ground plowed by his thought experiment will lead to the millions of his readers growing to see a reduced human population as an urgent need, rather than a scary, inhumane or sacrilegious idea!