TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamblin,Jacob Darwin
TI  - Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
SN  - 9780199908493
AV  - GE180 .A765 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press, USA
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Environmental sciences
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - War
KW  - Military planning
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Global environmental change
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 2; b
N2  - 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 aft
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