US environmental history : inviting Doomsday / John Wills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wills, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Environmental degradation--United States.

Environmental degradation.

United States--Environmental conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Other Title:

U.S. environmental history

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Environmental 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

Contents:

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; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-10579-3

0-7486-2979-3

OCLC:

828793352