This book is the revised text of a lecture of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, in which he delved deep into the causes of the environmental crisis which has gripped both the developed and the developing world. Here he has pondered over some key concepts in Hindu and Islamic thoughts and suggested how these may still help humanity to meet the crisis.

The author's piercing and sharp argument takes the reader through the different approaches of mankind towards nature and the manner in which pure science and technology has been used, to satisfy greed, not need.