LEADER 03691nam 2200529 450 001 9910137845003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-991159-2 010 $a0-19-990849-4 035 $a(CKB)3230000000204846 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25000180 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1153293 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1153293 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11304523 035 $a(OCoLC)958568192 035 $a(EXLCZ)993230000000204846 100 $a20161205h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aArming Mother Nature $ethe birth of catastrophic environmentalism /$fJacob Darwin Hamblin 210 1$aOxford, [England] :$cOxford University Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (x, 298 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-067415-6 311 $a0-19-974005-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-286) and index. 330 8 $aAre today's environmental crises linked to the plans for World War 3? The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend 'total war' ideas to the natural environment. This book links environmental warfare to the environmental crises of the 1970s and beyond.$bFamines. 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? 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEnvironmentalism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEnvironmental sciences$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnvironmental policy$xHistory 615 0$aEnvironmentalism$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aEnvironmental sciences$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a363.340973 700 $aHamblin$b Jacob Darwin$0792165 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910137845003321 996 $aArming mother nature$91771319 997 $aUNINA