03691nam 2200529 450 991013784500332120200520144314.00-19-991159-20-19-990849-4(CKB)3230000000204846(StDuBDS)AH25000180(MiAaPQ)EBC1153293(Au-PeEL)EBL1153293(CaPaEBR)ebr11304523(OCoLC)958568192(EXLCZ)99323000000020484620161205h20132013 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierArming Mother Nature the birth of catastrophic environmentalism /Jacob Darwin HamblinOxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (x, 298 pages) Includes index.0-19-067415-6 0-19-974005-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-286) and index.Are today's environmental crises linked to the plans for World War 3? The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend 'total war' ideas to the natural environment. This book links environmental warfare to the environmental crises of the 1970s and beyond.Famines. Diseases. Natural catastrophes. In 1945, scientists imagined these as the future faces of war. The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend "total war" ideas to the natural environment. Biological and radiological weapons, crop destruction, massive fires, artificial earthquakes and tsunamis, ocean current manipulation, sea level tinkering, weather control, and even climate change-all these becameavenues of research at the height of the Cold War. By the 1960s, a new phrase had emerged: environmental warfare. The same science-in fact, many of the same people-also led the way in understanding the earth's vulnerability during the environmental crisis of the 1970s. The first reports on human-induced climate change came from scientists who had advised NATO about how to protect the western allies from Soviet attack. Leading ecologists at Oxford also had helped Britain wage a war against crops in Malaya-and the Americans followed suit in Vietnam. The first predictions of environmental doomsday in theearly 1970s came from the intellectual pioneers of global conflict resolution, and some had designed America's missile defense systems. President Nixon's advisors on environmental quality had learned how to think globally by imagining Mother Nature as an armed combatant. Knowledge of environmental threats followed from military preparations throughout the Cold War, from nuclear winter to the AIDS epidemic. How much of our catastrophic thinking about today's environmental crises do we owe to the plans for World War Three?Environmental policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEnvironmentalismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEnvironmental sciencesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Environmental policyHistoryEnvironmentalismPolitical aspectsHistoryEnvironmental sciencesPolitical aspectsHistory363.340973Hamblin Jacob Darwin792165MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910137845003321Arming mother nature1771319UNINA01770nam 2200421 n 450 99639115370331620221116232335.0(CKB)1000000000659773(EEBO)2240866006(UnM)99851523(EXLCZ)99100000000065977319920403d1615 uy |engurbn#|||a|bb|Britaines busse. Or A computation aswell of the charge of a busse or herring-fishing ship[electronic resource] As also of the gaine and profit thereby. With the States proclamation annexed vnto the same, as concerning herring-fishing. By E.SLondon Printed by William Iaggard for Nicholas Bourne, and are to be sold at his shop at the south entry of the Royal Exchange1615[48] pE.S. = Edward Sharpe.Signatures: A-F⁴.The proclamation of the Staten Generaal of the Netherlands is dated: 19. of Iuly.Running title reads: Brittaines busse.With errata below "Finis". Variant: lacking errata.Reproduction of the original in the British Library.eebo-0018Herring industryEnglandEarly works to 1800Fishing boatsEnglandEarly works to 1800Herring industryFishing boatsE. S(Edward Sharpe),active 17th century.1270934United Provinces of the Netherlands.Staten Generaal.Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996391153703316Britaines busse. Or A computation aswell of the charge of a busse or herring-fishing ship2993908UNISA