Synopses & Reviews
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>
Synopsis
Since The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich's explosive book of the late 1960s, the threat of human overpopulation to the planet has never been out of the news. At conservative estimates, there are likely to be eight to eleven billion people on this planet by 2050 -- a number that will place enormous strain on our already depleted ecosystems and on the vanishing species that share the planet with us. In this powerful call to action, filmmaker and author Michael Tobias likens the catastrophic events that threaten to occur -- unless we change our population growth and consumption patterns -- to a world war.
When it was published in hardcover, World War III immediately garnered attention. The president of the Population Education Committee hailed it as "the most important book of the '90s (which) should be read by every leader of every nation, religion, organization, and corporation". Psychology Today exclaimed that it reads "like a volcano erupting". The issues of environmental resources and human population growth are only going to increase in urgency, and we need all the resources we can to combat or possibly avert the coming disasters. World War III will be one of those resources.
Synopsis
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>