Each day brings new discoveries, most of them alarming, about chemical poisoning in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe, and the manufacturing procedures we depend upon. Are we victims of crisis overkill, or are the dangers all too real? A report on the status of environmental crises, past and present.

“Each successive enlargement of man’s progressive desires has made him more and more an agent of change, until now his most advanced races are causing more change in the ways of the earth than all the other organic agents put together.”

Irish essayist and critic, DONAT O’DONNELLis best known in this country for his book MARIA CROSS, a study of such modern Catholic authors as François Mauriac, Graham Greene, Sean O’Faolain, Evelyn Waugh, and Paul Claudel. He is fond of dogs, especially Kerry blues, as this narrative discloses.