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Exploring apocalyptica [electronic resource] : coming to terms with environmental alarmism / edited by Frank Uekötter

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Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Physical Description
viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Uekötter, Frank, 1970-
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Contents
Introduction. The apocalyptic moment : writing about environmental alarmism / Frank Uekötter -- Power, politics, and protecting the forest : scares about wood shortages and deforestation in early modern German states / Bernd-Stefan Grewe -- Grassroots apocalypticism : the great upcoming air pollution disaster in postwar America / Frank Uekötter -- "A computer's vision of doomsday" : on the history of the 1972 study The limits to growth / Patrick Kupper and Elke Sefried -- The sum of all German fears : forest death, environmental activism, and the media in 1980s Germany / Frank Uekötter and Kenneth Anders -- The endangered Amazon Rain Forest in the age of ecological crisis / Kevin Niebauer -- Greenpeace and the Brent Spar campaign : a platform for several truths / Anna-Katharina Wöbse -- A landscape of multiple emergencies : narratives of the Dal Lake in Kashmir / Shalini Panjabi -- The Adivasi versus Coca-Cola : a local environmental conflict and its global resonance / Bernd-Stefan Grewe.
Summary
"Environmental alarmism has long been a political bellwether. Based on case studies from four continents and the North Atlantic, Exploring Apocalyptica argues for a reevaluation of familiar clichés."
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ISBN
9780822945239 hardcover
0822945231 hardcover
9780822983378 electronic book
0822983370 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-259) and index.
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