 In that book, he argued that environmental concerns can not be met without confronting other issues, mainly social and economical.He thus underlined the failure to "recognize and acknowledge that the decline of the environment is not an issue distinct from other flaws in our society" and that environmentalists "are in the same boat with other groups of Americans who are thwarted and victimized by the status quo," and "[t]hey will have to play a role in changing our political and economic systems.