... [This book]... is a good start for school age children [for 'laying the groundwork for a new ethics of ecological responsibility']. The 79 pages of maps, illustrations, photographs, and text begin with an explanation of the Earth as a balanced system which supports living things. ... The Atlas next addresses how the balance has been upset by loss of soil, air pollution, fouled water, destroyed plant life, threatened animal life, and overcrowded human life. ... The concise visual and textual presentation... is free of cumbersome statistics. The book seems ideally suited for children in late grade school through early high school. ...