Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
"a fascinating and often disturbing history" -American Scientist"InArming Mother Nature, Jacob Hamblin offers a far-reaching and provocative account of just how dependent narratives of global climate change are upon the military support, apocalyptic scenarios, and political ideology that shaped the growth of the modern environmental sciences during the Cold War." --Science Magazine"thought-provoking" --New Scientist"This book advances the intriguing idea that 'catastrophic environmentalism' is not standard rhetoric warning the public about climate change and extinction of species, but a strategy developed by the Pentagon to fight the Cold War. Recommended." --CHOICE"A well-written and -documented challenge of some of the assumptions on both sides in the debate about global warming." --Kirkus Reviews"Jacob Hamblin's new book is a clearly and calmly told tale of the American effort to conscript nature -from the seafloor to the stratosphere -for potential active duty during the Cold War.  Well researched in U.S. and European archives, it finds the roots of modern apocalyptic environmentalism in the hair-raising deeds and often hare-brained schemes of an American scientific-military complex under pressure to find ways to prevail against the USSR.  It sheds new light on the old adage that is a miracle anyone survived the Cold War."-J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University