Drug Abuse?; A Green World?

Here are two more 'Viewpoints' - collected quotations and pictures sorted into subject-based double spreads as an opinion-forming exercise for the reader. This approach presents a wide variety of views upon inter-related topics but often ends up - as it does here - with each book singing, in Kenny Wheeler's words 'Everyone's song but my own'.

Green World? is about sustainable energy versus economic climate and leads us to consider whether we can ever rationalise the two. The question mark here is properly used - which it certainly is not in Drug Abuse? In this less objective and more informative study we are left in no doubt that abuse is abuse, no question about it.

I did not think much of the last titles in the 'Viewpoints' that I reviewed - pulling together soundbites from diverse sources to allow pick 'n' mix opinion-generation is all very well provided the bits are hung on a firm and informative skeleton. Whereas the previous examples seemed entirely spineless, these two appear to be a lot better, with improved illustrational relevance. Could it be something we said?