In 1989 a Soviet environmental expert writer under the pseudonym Boris Komarov startled the world. His book The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union , was both a chilling description of the environmental devastation in the Soviet Union and an indictment of the official policy and public apathy that allows it to be perpetuated. Today Boris Komarov writes freely under his own name - Ze'ev Wolfson. But the ecological crisis he documents has only become more severe, more widespread, more deadly. In The Geography of Survival Wolfson speaks out in unmistakable terms about the world’s choice to embrace the cause of our collective survival or to let desertisation, pollution, disaster, famine, epidemic, and war work their own solution.