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This scientifically rigorous and philosophically sophisticated defense of environmentalism against economics-based criticism and technological optimism is meant to excite, educate, and alarm the reader.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Wounded World: Can Civilization Be Sustained?
Global Meltdown: Population Growth and Environmental Destruction
The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Postmodernity and the Crisis of Philosophy, Science and Knowledge
Economic Irrationalism: Against Cosmopolitan Economics
Endgame: Healing a Wounded World
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

JOSEPH WAYNE SMITH is Senior Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Dr. Smith is a widely published author on the subject of the future of the earth.

GRAHAM LYONS is a leading Adelaide businessman, cattle rancher, and environmentalist.

GARY SAUER-THOMPSON is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Flinders University of South Australia.

Reviews

?In North America, we have the tendency to look at the world from a strictly American point of view. In this book, we see how others view the world. I recommend this book to everyone for study and possible action.?-Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith

?The answers may not be comforting, and one may disagree, but the arguments are well made.?-Population and Environment

"The answers may not be comforting, and one may disagree, but the arguments are well made."-Population and Environment

"In North America, we have the tendency to look at the world from a strictly American point of view. In this book, we see how others view the world. I recommend this book to everyone for study and possible action."-Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith