Arming Mother Nature

Arming Mother Nature
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 309
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199740055
ISBN-13 : 0199740054
Rating : 4/5 (054 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Arming Mother Nature by : Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Download or read book Arming Mother Nature written by Jacob Darwin Hamblin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamblin argues that military planning for World War III essentially created "catastrophic environmentalism": the idea that human activity might cause global natural disasters. This awareness, Hamblin shows, emerged out of dark ambitions, as governments poured funds into environmental science after World War II.


Arming Mother Nature Related Books

Arming Mother Nature
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Hamblin argues that military planning for World War III essentially created "catastrophic environmentalism": the idea that human activity might cause global nat
The Wretched Atom
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would us
The Great Ages of Discovery
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Stephen J. Pyne
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-23 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the diffe
Greening the Alliance
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Simone Turchetti
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-17 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it ret
Whales and Nations
Language: en
Pages: 391
Authors: Kurkpatrick Dorsey
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted