Download or read book Healing a Wounded World written by Joseph Wayne Smith and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scientifically rigorous and philosophically sophisticated defense of environmentalism is meant to excite, educate, and alarm the reader. There is a widespread scientific and public recognition that the world is facing an environmental crisis of vast proportions. What is the relationship between the growth of human population and industrial activity on one hand and the environmental crisis on the other? If this is not determined and dealt with, Earth's ecology may be expected to collapse.