US environmental history: inviting doomsday

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Environmental issues in the USA are more important now than ever before. The devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina and Deepwater Horizon, growing evidence of global warming, & a struggling national energy supply highlight the unfolding crisis. Fears gravitate around a fast-approaching doomsday scenario unless something is done. Yet fears of doomsday are nothing new. John Wills shows how the current crisis is firmly rooted in the past. As well as showing how today's problems are manifestati…

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Full title :US environmental history : inviting doomsday / John Wills.

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Publication Date:©2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013.

The Physical Object

Description:233 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780748622634, 0748622632, 9780748622641, 0748622640
oclc:ocn820782526
LC Classification:GE180
Dewey Decimal:333.70973

Introduction -- Prologue : the invitation -- Killing in the wilderness -- The end of the (old) world -- The Armageddon experiment : Doom Town USA -- Chemical dystopia and Silent spring -- Black days : the Santa Barbara oil spill and Deepwater horizon -- The disaster city and Hurricane Katrina -- Disney/disnature and the end of the organic -- Conclusion : the doomsday machine -- Epilogue : the doomsday seed.

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Catastrophes écologiques -- Histoire ecology Environmental disasters Environmental disasters -- History environmental policy Environmental policy -- United States Environnement -- Politique gouvernement… History Judgment Day Jugement dernier United States United States -- Environmental conditio…