I was not a big fan of the intro to Earth Democracy. The lady was a bit too far left for me to take her seriously. She made a few claims, such as on page 3 "...terrorism, extremism, ethnic cleansing, and religious intolerance are unnatural conditions caused by globilization and have no place in Earth Democracy.", I think that's an incredibly ridiculous statement just based on the fact that humans have been participating in ethnic cleasing for centuries. Religious intolerance such as the persecution of jewish people has been going on for thousands and thousands of years. I will say that i do understand that she is from an area of the world that is being exploited for it's cheaper labor and less strict environmental laws but it's still a bit to liberal for me. I like to take middle ground in my political thoughts, sometimes I lean more to the left but this lady is at the end of the spectrum and I have a hard time taking it very seriously or accepting her point because I feel if i sat down to have a conversation with her, there would be no wiggle room. Almost as if she was a Bill O'Reily to the liberals. Also, without globilization, she would have never had any of us reading her book because there would be no way to get her message out, so globilization is actually helping people hear what she has to say.