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Deadly aerosols that poison the air, food, and water supplies have been injected into the atmosphere since the late 1940s. The program, known as geoengineering, has been implemented by wealthy eugenicists to deliberately sabotage the planet and commit mass murder. By directly poisoning the Earth's life-sustaining natural resources, geoengineering offers a compound approach to depopulation. The ionospheric heaters, which are used in conjunction with...
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Rich with detail, bold and original, Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear is a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future, an essential portrait of America at the millennium.
Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination. Riot, fire, flood, earthquake...only locusts are missing from the almost biblical list of disasters that have struck the city in the 1990s.
From Ventura to Laguna, more than one million Southern Californians...
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Dit boek is bedoeld voor mensen die meer willen weten over het onderwerp stikstof en de rol die dit element speelt in ons dagelijks leven. Stikstof is een belangrijk onderdeel van onze atmosfeer en speelt een rol in tal van industriële processen. Het boek biedt een diepgaande kijk op de eigenschappen en toepassingen van stikstof.Een van de meest besproken onderwerpen in relatie tot stikstof zijn de boerenprotesten. Boeren zijn van oudsher grote gebruikers...
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No drumbeat resonates like the mobilization of public opinion for war. In 2008 and 2009, policy elites around the world prepared for US re-entry to the global climate debate. These short narrative bursts capture the heady aspirations of the time, tracing the strategic perimeter of energy initiatives that soon turned comatose – a "weird and unintended prequel" to the exuberant 21 Machetes.
5) Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law
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The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disney's ski resort development and launched a new environmental era in America.
In our current age of climate change–induced panic, it's hard to imagine a time when private groups were not actively enforcing environmental protection laws in the courts. It wasn't until 1972, however, that a David and Goliath–esque Supreme Court showdown involving...
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Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separated for millions of years. Because some of these nonnative species thrive in their new homes and harm environments, economies, and human health, the prevention and management of invasive species has become...
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Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade?
San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world-some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through...
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As cities grow and climates change, precipitation increases, and with every great storm-from record-breaking Boston blizzards to floods in Houston-come buckets of stormwater and a deluge of problems. In Stormwater, William G. Wilson brings us the first expansive guide to stormwater science and management in urban environments, where rising runoff threatens both human and environmental health.
As Wilson shows, rivers of runoff flowing from manmade...
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A harrowing, captivating firsthand history of the rise of the radical environmental movement the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Since 1997, the ELF has inflicted over $100 million in damages on entities they believe to be causing environmental destruction, mostly through brazen arson attacks on timber companies, ski resorts, and car dealerships. Former ELF spokesperson Craig Rosebraugh charts the history and ideology of the ELF and explores its tactics,...
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For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to reconsider-from the changed nature of human agency...
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In "Diesel's Destiny: Pollution, Environment, And Future Paths," Davis Truman delves into the environmental crisis fueled by our addiction to fossil fuels, particularly in the automotive sector. From the promises of freedom to the scandals like Dieselgate, the book explores the urgent need for a green revolution. It examines the rise of electric vehicles but also questions whether electricity alone is the solution. With insightful analysis and a hopeful...
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As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage-to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I be remembered? What traditions do I want to continue? What cycles do I want to break? What new systems do I want to initiate for those yet-to-be-born? How do we endure? Published in association with the...
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Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any good news about the environment? Yes, there is, answers Andrew Balmford in Wild Hope, and he offers several powerful stories of successful conservation to prove it. This tragedy is still avoidable, and there...
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An illustrated visit to the tropical arctic of 205 million years ago when Greenland was green.
While today's Greenland is largely covered in ice, in the time of the dinosaurs the area was a lushly forested, tropical zone. Tropical Arctic tracks a ten-million-year window of Earth's history when global temperatures soared and the vegetation of the world responded.
A project over eighteen years in the making, Tropical Arctic is the result of a unique...
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Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) in Africa: A Comprehensive Guide" is a vital resource that offers a thorough exploration of the integrated approach to disease surveillance and response in the African context. This comprehensive guide delves into various aspects of IDSR implementation, equipping public health professionals, policymakers, and researchers with the knowledge and strategies needed to effectively address communicable...
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Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulating new research, these papers have made substantial contributions to an understanding of ecological processes, and they continue to influence the field today.
The papers span nearly nine decades of ecological research, from 1887 on, and are organized...
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El libro presenta bases y reflexiones hacia un futuro armónico entre el ser humano y la biota del planeta, a través de 10 capítulos, recorriendo los siguientes temas: la importancia de la agroecología; convergencias y diferencias entre agroecosistemas y hábitats naturales; el origen de la agricultura y su intensificación; soberanía alimentaria, energética y tecnológica; hipótesis agroecológicas y biodiversidad; la medición de la biodiversidad;...
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Houston is doomed. New Orleans is sinking. All of southern Florida is likely to be devastated by massive flooding.Over the past 50 years, sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico have risen 69% faster than global sea surface temperatures, which are rising themselves as the planet warms. As this trend continues, communities along and near the Gulf of Mexico will experience an increase in destructive hurricanes with related problems of storm surge,...
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Located in the heart of England's Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation-and helped launch the environmental movement as we know it. Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was dammed and converted into a reservoir, its water piped one hundred...