[camdenlock]

> but my superhero concept filled me with a concern that ecology might be the next banner for demagogues and would-be-heroes, for the power seekers and others ready to find an adrenaline high in the launching of a new crusade.

Damn, he was spot on about this.

[kaycebasques]

That was a big surprise for me. I always took the book as an earnest ecological message. Totally missed the "heroes are disasters" central theme and therefore the underlying warning about greenwashing.