Prior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate
relationship conceived? Focusing on the most recent epoch in which
belief in an animate environment still widely prevailed, Climate
Change and Original Sin argues that an ecologically inflected moral
system assumed that humanity bore responsibility for climate
corruption and volatility. The environmental problem initiated by
original sin is not only that humans alienated themselves from
nature but also that satanic powers invaded the world and corrupted
its elements-particularly the air. Milton shared with
contemporaries the widespread view that storms and earthquakes
represented the work of fearsome spiritual agents licensed to
inflict misery on humans as penalty for sin. Katherine Cox's work
discerns in Paradise Lost an ecological fall distinct from, yet
concurrent with, the human fall. In examining Milton's evolving
representations of the climate, this book also traces the gradual
development of ideas about the atmosphere during the seventeenth
century-a change in the intellectual climate driven by experimental
activity and heralding an ecologically devastating shift in Western
attitudes toward the air.
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