World War III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium - Hardcover

Tobias, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1879181185 ISBN 13: 9781879181182

Publisher: Bear & Co, 1994

Synopsis

Argues that we are currently at war with the environment, manipulating it for political and economic reasons

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About the Author:

Michael Tobias is the author of fourteen books dealing with environmental issues. He has written, directed, and produced over seventy films, including the award winning dramatic mini-series, Voice of the Planet. He was formerly a professor of environmental affairs at Dartmouth College and humanities at California State University. He was a former MacNeil Lehrer News Hour correspondent,an executive Producer for the PBS executive series THE POWER GAME.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Using a governing metaphor a bit less subtle than a strip mine, environmentalist, author, and filmmaker Tobias argues that humanity is waging a war of aggression against the planet, a ``melancholy war which is destroying Earth and all her precious progeny.'' He travels around China, Indonesia, India, Kenya, the US, and Antarctica and returns, laden with fact and anecdote, to tell us that there are too many of us and that rapine economic development is killing the planet. It's hard to argue with that. Tobias often finds a vivid way to make a point, clarifying, for instance, the argument for birth control: ``At current birth and death rates, the world is adding a Los Angeles every three weeks.'' At times, however, he writes like a prophet, or rather like a man who is trying to write like a prophet speaks, obscuring the essentially sober, substantial points he makes. But Tobias is both knowledgeable and passionate in his attempt to reconcile scientific rationality with a religious reverence for the planet. A one-hour documentary based on the book will air on PBS-TV in the fall. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bear & Co
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1879181185
• ISBN 13: 9781879181182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 609