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, growing evidence of global warming, and a struggling national energy supply highlight the unfolding crisis. Environmental fears translate into US automobile giants plying consumers with 'fuel efficient' cars in the 'MPG Lounge' of sales. Politicians talk of energy independence and getting tough on polluters. Fears gravitate around a fast-approaching doomsday scenario, an envi…

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Full title :US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday.

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Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780748629794, 0748629793, 9780748672363, 0748672362
oclc:ocn828793352
LC Classification:GE180 .W54 2012
Dewey Decimal:333.70973

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; Prologue: The Invitation; CHAPTER ONE Killing in the Wilderness; CHAPTER TWO The End of the (old) World; CHAPTER THREE The Armageddon Experiment: Doom Town USA; CHAPTER FOUR Chemical Dystopia and Silent Spring; CHAPTER FIVE Black Days: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Deepwater Horizon; CHAPTER SIX The Disaster City and Hurricane Katrina; CHAPTER SEVEN Disney/Disnature and the End of the Organic; CONCLUSION The Doomsday Machine; Epilogue: The Doomsday Seed; Index.

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental E… BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business ecology environmental policy Environmental policy -- United States Environnement -- Politique gouvernement… History (North America) NATURE -- Natural Resources United States United States -- Environmental conditio…