There Goes the Neighborhood by Elsi Vassdal EllisA sound bite by Jacques Chirac started the juices flowing for There Goes the Neighborhood: Our house is burning down and were blind to it . . . the earth and human kind are in danger and we are all responsible.: The resulting book presents six neighborhoods examining the decline of biodiversity, the environment and the quality of our lives as we know it. Image and word bites illuminate the problems of population growth, ocean acidity and overfishing,