Publisher's Synopsis
"This may be the best book on ecology ever written." - Michael Crichton, The New York Times. A radical argument about the root causes of climate change, this landmark work was progressive when it was written in 1971, and its message remains equally relevant today. A must-read for anyone concerned with how the global economy contributes to climate change and what steps can be taken to save the planet. "I regard him as right and compassionate on nearly every major issue." - Stephen Jay Gould. "Readers interested in the history of environmental thought will be fascinated to see how many of today's crises were already understood almost fifty years ago. We've made progress in a few places, but it's hard to read Commoner's prescient warnings without a sigh for how little attention we've actually paid to these great challenges." - Bill McKibben, author of Falter and The End of Nature
