02832nam 2200577 a 450 991078614790332120170815153245.01-299-10579-30-7486-2979-310.1515/9780748629794(CKB)2670000000331198(EBL)1126605(OCoLC)828793352(SSID)ssj0000973100(PQKBManifestationID)11553100(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000973100(PQKBWorkID)10960078(PQKB)10883766(MiAaPQ)EBC1126605(DE-B1597)614295(DE-B1597)9780748629794(OCoLC)1302164912(EXLCZ)99267000000033119820130227d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUS environmental history[electronic resource] inviting Doomsday /John WillsEdinburgh Edinburgh University Press20131 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-2263-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexEnvironmental 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 Environmental policyUnited StatesEnvironmental degradationUnited StatesUnited StatesEnvironmental conditionsEnvironmental policyEnvironmental degradation333.70973Wills John950151MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786147903321US environmental history3715410UNINA