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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786147903321

Autore

Wills John

Titolo

US environmental history [[electronic resource] ] : inviting Doomsday / / John Wills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-10579-3

0-7486-2979-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

333.70973

Soggetti

Environmental policy - United States

Environmental degradation - United States

United States Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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