Arming Mother Nature

Arming Mother Nature
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780199740055
ISBN-13 : 0199740054
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Book Synopsis Arming Mother Nature by : Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Download or read book Arming Mother Nature written by Jacob Darwin Hamblin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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