Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. A Symbol of Our Environmental Dilemma
• 2. The Para Rubber Tree
• 3. Natural to Synthetic
• 4. Dream the Impossible Dream?
• 5. Disappearing Jungles-and Forests
• 6. Jungle Myths and Tall Timber Tales
• 7. Everybody Plant a Tree
• 8. The Role of Diversity
• 9. Impossible Dream into Inevitable Nightmare
• 10. What to Do with a Used Tire
• 11. Are We Capable of Doing the Right Thing?
• 12. High-Tech to the Rescue?
• 13. Roll Out the Barrel
• 14. The Para Rubber Tree and Global Ecology
• 15. “Man’s Inhumanity to Man”
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

For more than forty-five years, the late J. Robert Hunter was a tropical environmentalist, working on a wide range of crops, forests, and land use practices. He held a Ph.D. in agronomy from Michigan State University.