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WORLD WAR III is the first comprehensive look at the most pressing and least understood problems of our time. Many have brought up the population problem before, but few have traveled the world in search of answers. Tobias journey and questions resulted in this document in the quest for hope in the next millennium. There are approx 300,000 people added to the planet every day, approx 3 million every ten days. This is must read for every concerned citizen>
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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.
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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.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0826410855
- ISBN 13 9780826410856
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages296
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