Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) write by J. R. McNeill. This book was released on 2001-04-17. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth century: its environmental history. To a degree unprecedented in human history, we have refashioned the earth's air, water, and soil, and the biosphere of which we are a part. Based on exhaustive research, McNeill's story—a compelling blend of anecdotes, data, and shrewd analysis—never preaches: it is our definitive account. This is a volume in The Global Century Series (general editor, Paul Kennedy).
Something New Under the Sun
Something New Under the Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Something New Under the Sun write by J. R. McNeill. This book was released on 2001-04-17. Something New Under the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the history of environmental change around the world in the twentieth century, its human causes, and consequences.
The Great Acceleration
The Great Acceleration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Acceleration write by J. R. McNeill. This book was released on 2016-04-04. The Great Acceleration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as well as trends in climate change, urbanization, and environmentalism. More than any other factor, human dependence on fossil fuels inaugurated the Anthropocene. Before 1700, people used little in the way of fossil fuels, but over the next two hundred years coal became the most important energy source. When oil entered the picture, coal and oil soon accounted for seventy-five percent of human energy use. This allowed far more economic activity and produced a higher standard of living than people had ever known—but it created far more ecological disruption. We are now living in the Anthropocene. The period from 1945 to the present represents the most anomalous period in the history of humanity’s relationship with the biosphere. Three-quarters of the carbon dioxide humans have contributed to the atmosphere has accumulated since World War II ended, and the number of people on Earth has nearly tripled. So far, humans have dramatically altered the planet’s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. If we try to control these systems through geoengineering, we will inaugurate another stage of the Anthropocene. Where it might lead, no one can say for sure.
Nature and the Iron Curtain
Nature and the Iron Curtain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and the Iron Curtain write by Astrid Kirchhof. This book was released on 2019-06-05. Nature and the Iron Curtain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Nature and the Iron Curtain, the authors contrast communist and capitalist countries with respect to their environmental politics in the context of the Cold War. Its chapters draw from archives across Europe and the U.S. to present new perspectives on the origins and evolution of modern environmentalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book explores similarities and differences among several nations with different economies and political systems, and highlights connections between environmental movements in Eastern and Western Europe.
Something New Under the Sun
Something New Under the Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Something New Under the Sun write by Alexandra Kleeman. This book was released on 2021-08-03. Something New Under the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality” (Time) LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub “An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure.”—Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter—the cynical starlet of his film—and the two investigate the sun-scorched city, where they discover the darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood. Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment—a bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of alternative facts, and “a ghost story not of the past but of the near future” (The New York Times).
