US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday.

By:

Wills, John

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780748629794
0748629793
9780748672363
0748672362

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday.DDC classification:

333.70973

LOC classification:

GE180 .W54 2012

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 environmental endgame, of wholesale collapse, unless something is done. Yet fears of doomsday are nothing.

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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 environmental endgame, of wholesale collapse, unless something is done. Yet fears of doomsday are nothing.