Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World. By Richard P. Tucker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 551. $45.
本书分析热带农业和林业出口扩张导致的生态退化如何加剧了热带地区的贫困，并指出美国消费需求和企业是过去一个世纪推动这一负面动态的主要外部力量。
Why les tristes tropiques have become the world's major sump of poverty has been analyzed from various perspectives, producing varying judgments on the complicity of the foreign powers who had “opened up” the tropics to foreign settlement, trade and investment. This volume's basic theses are that ecological degradation from the expansion of tropical agricultural and silvicultural exports have been a major source of socioeconomic damage to the tropics and that, especially in the past century, U.S. consumer demand and enterprise have dominated the external forces propelling this adverse dynamic.