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When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement--and its dire predictions--owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture.In Arming Mother Nature, Hamblin argues that military planning for World War III essentially created "catastrophic environmentalism" the idea that human activity might cause global natural disasters. This awareness, Hamblin shows, emerged out of dark ambitions, as governments poured funds into environmental science after World War II, searching for ways to harness natural processes--to kill millions of people. Proposals included the use of nuclear weapons to create artificial tsunamis or melt the ice caps to drown coastal cities; setting fire to vast expanses of vegetation; and changing local climates. Oxford botanists advised British generals on how to destroy enemy crops during the war in Malaya; American
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Author : Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Pages : 320 pages
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN-10 : 0190674156
ISBN-13 : 9780190674151
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