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Humans versus nature : a global environmental history

Headrick, Daniel R., author

2020

Overview

\"This book is about the ongoing conflict between humanity and the natural environment. Over the past 200,000 years, humans have multiplied and populated the Earth. When they domesticated plants and animals and replaced foraging with agriculture and herding, they depleted natural resources, deforested the land, and caused mass extinctions. But nature has agency too, causing pandemics of plague, smallpox, measles, influenza, and other diseases and a climate change called the Little Ice Age. In recent centuries, industrialization has accelerated extinctions, deforestation, and resource depletion, even in the oceans. Twentieth-century developmentalism and mass consumerism have caused global warming and other climate changes. Environmental movements have argued for the need to mitigate the negative consequences of technological and economic change. The future of humanity and the Earth depends on choices between achieving a sustainable balance between humans and nature, carrying on as before, or learning to manage the biosphere. environment, mass extinction, domestication, agriculture, pandemic, industrialization, developmentalism, consumerism, global warming\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Nature Effect of human beings on. / Global environmental change History.
• ISBN: 9780190864712, 0190864710, 9780190864729, 0190864729

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GF75.H4347 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE