US Environmental History : : Inviting Doomsday / / John Wills.
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 consumer...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9780748629794 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)614295 (OCoLC)1302164912 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Wills, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday / John Wills. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2012 1 online resource (240 p.) : 14 B/W illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Invitation -- 1 Killing in the Wilderness -- 2 The End of the (old) World -- 3 The Armageddon Experiment: Doom Town USA -- 4 Chemical Dystopia and Silent Spring -- 5 Black Days: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Deepwater Horizon -- 6 The Disaster City and Hurricane Katrina -- 7 Disney/Disnature and the End of the Organic -- Conclusion: The Doomsday Machine -- Epilogue: The Doomsday Seed -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 new. John Wills shows how the current environmental crisis is firmly rooted in the past. As well as explaining how today's problems are manifestations of older systems of economics, culture and politics, he also argues that America has already witnessed a range of 'doomsday scenarios,' both real and imagined. He identifies and explores a cast of 'doomsday landscapes' that includes the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, the 'Fable for Tomorrow' town featured in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), and Nevada's Doom Towns 1 and 2 blown apart by atomic testing in the 1950s. He reflects on contemporary ruminations over whether nature as a category endures given both the rising contamination of the US landscape and consumer proclivity for celebrating fake mementos of the outdoors (such as plastic lawn flamingos and artificial plants). And most significantly, he poses the question of whether Americans have been inviting doomsday through their long-term environmental actions. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Environmental disasters History. Environmental policy United States. Judgment Day. American Studies. HISTORY / North America. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110780468 print 9780748622634 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748629794 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748629794 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748629794/original |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Wills, John, Wills, John, |
spellingShingle |
Wills, John, Wills, John, US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday / Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Invitation -- 1 Killing in the Wilderness -- 2 The End of the (old) World -- 3 The Armageddon Experiment: Doom Town USA -- 4 Chemical Dystopia and Silent Spring -- 5 Black Days: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Deepwater Horizon -- 6 The Disaster City and Hurricane Katrina -- 7 Disney/Disnature and the End of the Organic -- Conclusion: The Doomsday Machine -- Epilogue: The Doomsday Seed -- Index |
author_facet |
Wills, John, Wills, John, |
author_variant |
j w jw j w jw |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Wills, John, |
title |
US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday / |
title_sub |
Inviting Doomsday / |
title_full |
US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday / John Wills. |
title_fullStr |
US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday / John Wills. |
title_full_unstemmed |
US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday / John Wills. |
title_auth |
US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Invitation -- 1 Killing in the Wilderness -- 2 The End of the (old) World -- 3 The Armageddon Experiment: Doom Town USA -- 4 Chemical Dystopia and Silent Spring -- 5 Black Days: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Deepwater Horizon -- 6 The Disaster City and Hurricane Katrina -- 7 Disney/Disnature and the End of the Organic -- Conclusion: The Doomsday Machine -- Epilogue: The Doomsday Seed -- Index |
title_new |
US Environmental History : |
title_sort |
us environmental history : inviting doomsday / |
publisher |
Edinburgh University Press, |
publishDate |
2022 |
physical |
1 online resource (240 p.) : 14 B/W illustrations |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Invitation -- 1 Killing in the Wilderness -- 2 The End of the (old) World -- 3 The Armageddon Experiment: Doom Town USA -- 4 Chemical Dystopia and Silent Spring -- 5 Black Days: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Deepwater Horizon -- 6 The Disaster City and Hurricane Katrina -- 7 Disney/Disnature and the End of the Organic -- Conclusion: The Doomsday Machine -- Epilogue: The Doomsday Seed -- Index |
isbn |
9780748629794 9783110780468 9780748622634 |
geographic_facet |
United States. |
url |
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748629794 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748629794 https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748629794/original |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
300 - Social sciences |
dewey-tens |
330 - Economics |
dewey-ones |
333 - Economics of land & energy |
dewey-full |
333.70973 |
dewey-sort |
3333.70973 |
dewey-raw |
333.70973 |
dewey-search |
333.70973 |
doi_str_mv |
10.1515/9780748629794 |
oclc_num |
1302164912 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT willsjohn usenvironmentalhistoryinvitingdoomsday |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)614295 (OCoLC)1302164912 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
is_hierarchy_title |
US Environmental History : Inviting Doomsday / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
_version_ |
1806143319476011008 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>04565nam a22006855i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9780748629794</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20220629043637.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">220629t20222012stk fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780748629794</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.1515/9780748629794</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)614295</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1302164912</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">stk</subfield><subfield code="c">GB-SCT</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HIS029000</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">333.70973</subfield><subfield code="2">23</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Wills, John, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">US Environmental History :</subfield><subfield code="b">Inviting Doomsday /</subfield><subfield code="c">John Wills.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Edinburgh : </subfield><subfield code="b">Edinburgh University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2022]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2012</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (240 p.) :</subfield><subfield code="b">14 B/W illustrations</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">List of Figures -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Introduction -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Prologue: The Invitation -- </subfield><subfield code="t">1 Killing in the Wilderness -- </subfield><subfield code="t">2 The End of the (old) World -- </subfield><subfield code="t">3 The Armageddon Experiment: Doom Town USA -- </subfield><subfield code="t">4 Chemical Dystopia and Silent Spring -- </subfield><subfield code="t">5 Black Days: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Deepwater Horizon -- </subfield><subfield code="t">6 The Disaster City and Hurricane Katrina -- </subfield><subfield code="t">7 Disney/Disnature and the End of the Organic -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Conclusion: The Doomsday Machine -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Epilogue: The Doomsday Seed -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">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 new. John Wills shows how the current environmental crisis is firmly rooted in the past. As well as explaining how today's problems are manifestations of older systems of economics, culture and politics, he also argues that America has already witnessed a range of 'doomsday scenarios,' both real and imagined. He identifies and explores a cast of 'doomsday landscapes' that includes the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, the 'Fable for Tomorrow' town featured in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), and Nevada's Doom Towns 1 and 2 blown apart by atomic testing in the 1950s. He reflects on contemporary ruminations over whether nature as a category endures given both the rising contamination of the US landscape and consumer proclivity for celebrating fake mementos of the outdoors (such as plastic lawn flamingos and artificial plants). And most significantly, he poses the question of whether Americans have been inviting doomsday through their long-term environmental actions.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Environmental disasters</subfield><subfield code="x">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Environmental policy</subfield><subfield code="z">United States.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Judgment Day.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">American Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HISTORY / North America.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110780468</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780748622634</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748629794</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748629794</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748629794/original</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-078046-8 Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000</subfield><subfield code="c">2000</subfield><subfield code="d">2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_HICS</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_HICS</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |