I picked up this book about 9 months ago and finally started reading it as it is a daunting bit of book in it's encyclopedic summary of man's ecological predicament. I don't expect to finish it for quite some time as it appears to read like a wine cellar can be drunk -- one sip, one bottle, one chapter at a time, and let it rest a bit. It's quite good, even though it starts out incredibly pedantic and textbook like.
His main POV is summarized by his Vicious Circle Principle, which I've nicknamed as the 'Can't have one's cake and eat it, too, principle'. Makes me long to also read 'Overshoot' by Catton, which I never got around to even opening. However, all the new data that Dilworth presents is thoroughly fascinating in it's own right, which dissolves away the pedantry easily enough.
http://www.amazon.com/Too-Smart-our-Goo ... B004EHZY4W
The paperback edition is quite well made if the hardcover edition is financially out of reach of many.