"A chronicle of short-term gain for the few, and long-term decline for the many. But it is also at times a story of hope, of how the people most immediately threatened by the loss of their trees, fish, and farmland are fighting back."—Megan Ryan, World Watch Magazine, Worldwatch Institute

"Broad and Cavanagh have found, in perhaps the most unexpected corner of the planet, a hopeful story and a challenge to certain conventional environmental wisdom."—Harry E. Demarest, San Francisco Chronicle Review

"Heartfelt and intensely political . . . the authors offer a new, optimistic spin to customary interpretations. Drawing on episodes witnessed during their travels, they rely on deterministic arguments to conclude . . . that a true environmental movement is well under way."—Asian Wall Street Journal

"A superb book. In her foreword, Barbara Ehrenreich refers to Plundering Paradise as 'one of the first, and certainly one of the most engaging books to chronicle both the environmental devastation of the Third World and the ongoing movement of resistance.' . . . The authors are master storytellers."—Contemporary Sociology

"This is a powerfully written book on an immensely depressing subject--the environmental degradation of the Philippines. . . .This book deserves to be widely read, and undoubtedly will be."—Australian Journal of International Affairs