Exploring apocalyptica coming to terms with environmental alarmism - Uekèotter, Frank 1970- (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
Introduction. The apocalyptic moment : writing about environmental alarmism Frank Uekèotter -- 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 Uekèotter -- "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 Uekèotter 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 Wèobse -- 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Environmental sciences -- Philosophy; Environmentalism -- Philosophy; Environmentalism -- Political aspects; Climatic changes -- Government policy -- History; Electronic books