Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2009
* Reviewed by the present Author on pp. 189–90 of our Summer issue.—Ed.
† This reminds us of our idea, first advanced publicly at the International Conference on the Conservation and Management of Rivers (held at the University of York, Heslington, York, England, UK, during 10–13 September 1990), that, after an immediate ‘control of the threat of too many people’, what our world needs for its salvation is ‘the evolution of a new dominant cult of Mankind that will place due consideration on welfare of The Biosphere before selfish personal, economic, national, and other interests’ — see ‘Leading conclusions of the (first) International Conference on River Conservation and Management’, by E. Barton Worthington, Robin L. Welcomme & Nicholas Polunin (Environmental Conservation, in press).—Ed.