"This is a very special book. Until now no one has put together the full environmental and ethical story facing Planet Earth, as Tor Hundloe has done. In this book he has put squarely on the agenda the key matters which almost all - including Al Gore - are still dodging for fear of the heavy hand of the church and of conservative economists. And that is nothing less than the need to reduce our global population; the need to recognise that our market economy does not have to grow forever to retain its vitality; and above all the need to get serious about linking the global economy to the global environment. Environmental policies have failed us to date because this link is not made. As sure as night follows day, we will continue to fail environmentally if we do not reform our national and global economic systems. In essence, Hundloe has produced a book in the 21st century of which a latter-day Adam Smith would be proud of." - Professor Ross Fitzgerald, Australian historian, novelist, broadcaster, political commentator.

In 2003, Tor Hundloe was the first Australian recognised by the award of an Order of Australia for his development and practice of an economics in line with ecological reality and ethical imperatives.