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The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment - How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth (Hardcover)
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The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment - How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth (Hardcover)
Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified
science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis.
Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers
science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But the
internationalists found hope in the idea of world government. In
The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment, Perrin Selcer argues
that the metaphor of "Spaceship Earth"-the idea of the planet as a
single interconnected system-exemplifies this moment, when a mix of
anxiety and hope inspired visions of world community and the
proliferation of international institutions. Selcer tells the story
of how the United Nations built the international knowledge
infrastructure that made the global-scale environment visible.
Experts affiliated with UN agencies helped make the "global"-as in
global population, global climate, and global economy-an object in
need of governance. Selcer traces how UN programs such as UNESCO's
Arid Lands Project, the production of a soil map of the world, and
plans for a global environmental-monitoring system fell short of
utopian ambitions to cultivate world citizens but did produce an
international community of experts with influential connections to
national governments. He shows how events and personalities,
cultures and ecologies, bureaucracies and ideologies,
decolonization and the Cold War interacted to make global
knowledge. A major contribution to global history, environmental
history, and the history of development, this book relocates the
origins of planetary environmentalism in the postwar politics of
scale.
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