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The Environment - A History of the Idea (Paperback)
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The Environment - A History of the Idea (Paperback)
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An in-depth look at the history of the environment. Is it possible
for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed?
Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and
grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a
lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was
not because our ancestors had no impact on nature-nor because they
were unaware of the serious damage they had done. What people
lacked was an idea: a way of imagining the web of interconnection
and consequence of which the natural world is made. Without this
notion, we didn't have a way to describe the scale and scope of
human impact upon nature. This idea was "the environment." In this
fascinating book, Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Soerlin
trace the emergence of the concept of the environment following
World War II, a period characterized by both hope for a new global
order and fear of humans' capacity for almost limitless
destruction. It was at this moment that a new idea and a new
narrative about the planet-wide impact of people's behavior
emerged, closely allied to anxieties for the future. Now we had a
vocabulary for talking about how we were changing nature: resource
exhaustion and energy, biodiversity, pollution,
and-eventually-climate change. With the rise of "the environment,"
the authors argue, came new expertise, making certain kinds of
knowledge crucial to understanding the future of our planet. The
untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to
dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading
for anyone who wants to help protect the environment from the
numerous threats it faces today.
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