Exploring Apocalyptica : Coming to Terms with Environmental Alarmism /

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Environmental alarmism has long been a political bellwether. Tell me what you think about the green apocalypse, and I'll tell you where you stand on the issues. But as the environmental heydays of the 1970s move into perspective, the time has come for a reassessment. Horror scenarios create a l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Uekötter, Frank, 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Climatic changes > Government policy > History.
Environmentalism > Political aspects.
Environmentalism > Philosophy.
Environmental sciences > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The apocalyptic moment : writing about environmental alarmism / Frank Uekötter
  • Power, politics, and protecting the forests : scares about wood shortages and deforestation in early modern German states / Bernd-Stefan Grewe
  • Grassroots apocalypticism : the great upcoming air pollution disaster in postwar America / Frank Uekötter
  • "A computer's vision of doomsday" : on the history of the 1972 study The limits to growth / Patrick Kupper and Elke Sefried
  • The sum of all German fears : forest death, environmental activism, and the media in 1980s Germany / Frank Uekötter and Kenneth Anders
  • The endangered Amazon Rain Forest in the age of ecological crisis / Kevin Niebauer
  • Greenpeace and the Brent Spar campaign : a platform for several truths / Anna-Katharina Wöbse
  • A landscape of multiple emergencies : narratives of the Dal Lake in Kashmir / Shalini Panjabi
  • The Adivasi versus Coca-Cola : a local environmental conflict and its global resonance / Bernd-Stefan Grewe.

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