Tobias, a writer and filmmaker on environmental issues, focuses on five of the largest population regions in the world China, India, Indonesia, Africa, and America, revealing how their respective environmental dilemmas are suggestive of global crisis. He examines philosophies, historical premises, economic and agricultural practices, and religious beliefs within the context of humanity's war against nature, and recommends a new international order based on vegetarian ethics and prudent altruism. Published by Bear & Company Publishing, PO Box 2860, Santa Fe, NM 87504. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.