The second volume of the Phenomenology of Biocatastrophe publication series is an epigrammatic journey through the tragedy of our Round-World Commons. Beginning with essays on biohistory, the world water crisis, and the sociology of biocatastrophe, the main text is composed of basic definitions pertaining to natural and human ecology, followed by a series of epigrammatic op eds, news bites, epiphanies, observations, and questions. This volume also contains relevant acronyms, abbreviations, and conversion tables followed by a series of biocatastrophe pie charts, which delineate the...

The essays in the first volume of the Phenomenology of Biocatastrophe publication series explore the impact of complex western market economies on the biodiversity and productivity of natural ecosystems, with emphasis on the evolution of industrial society and the resulting contamination of the atmospheric water cycle with anthropogenic ecotoxins. Topics include the biohistory of human civilization, cataclysmic climate change, chemical fallout, the evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria, the proliferation of pharmaceutical wastes, and the development of genetically modified organisms....

The third volume of the Phenomenology of Biocatastrophe publication series begins with a discussion of the public safety issues pertaining to biocatastrophe. A review of the chemistry of ecotoxins is followed by a survey of anthropogenic ecotoxins and commentary on their health effects. This last volume also includes links to information sources about environmental issues and contaminants, followed by an extensive series of appendices, which provide a brief introduction to CDC, EPA, FDA, state, and NGO databases and environmental screening programs. Specific topics covered in the appendices...