FEEDBACK

It’s clear from Dan Neil’s review that he didn’t much care for my book, “Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet” [“A Curious Notion of an Eco-Cabal,” April 5]. Dan is entitled to his opinion. But he’s not entitled to misstate the premise of my book to tear it down.

His review begins by incorrectly asserting that “Eco Barons” is a celebration of a few really rich people doing good things for the environment when, according to Dan, the only appropriate position is to blame really rich people for ruining the environment as well as the economy and the country. Having established then attacked this false premise, he then suggests that it was misleading of me to write about wealthy folks doing good in the world because they “are so atypical as to be, in a way, sociopaths.”

Now, setting aside that this claim is both bizarre and truly offensive, I don’t know whose book The Times’ car guy read, because it’s not mine. I wrote about men and women, some with a great deal of money, many without, but all with vision and fortitude, working to conserve wilderness, save endangered species, develop green technology and force government and industry to act against global warming. I call them Eco Barons not as a measure of their bank accounts, as Dan would have it, but of their impact, which is unparalleled.

Edward Humes

Seal Beach