Humankind has survived devastation: Famine. Plague. Predators. Insects. Wildfire. Floods. Hurricanes. All take their tolls, but we have learned to overcome the destructive forces of nature. Medicine wages war against disease. Pesticides replace blight with abundance. Fire brigades extinguish raging fires, saving cities.

Now, humankind has entered a new era. An era in which the balance is reversed. Where humankind and nature are at war. An era in which civilization threatens itself more than nature: genetic manipulation, cloning, eugenics, nuclear proliferation, viral superbugs, global warming.

Will the planet endure? Can nature survive man? Can man persist in this brave new world?