The Vortex by Frank Uekotter
Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises--climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes--means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uek tter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment throughout history. Ours is not a one-way trajectory to sudden collapse, he argues, but rather death by a thousand cuts. The many paths we've forged to arrive in our current predicament, from agriculture to industry to infrastructure, must be considered collectively if we are to stay afloat in what Uek tter describes as a vortex: a powerful metaphor for the flow of history, capturing the momentum and the many crosscurrents that swept people and environments along. His book invites us to look at environmental challenges from multiple perspectives, including all the twists and turns that have helped to create the mess we find ourselves in. Uek tter has written a world history for an age where things are falling apart: where we know what lies ahead and are equipped with the right tools--technological and otherwise--and plenty of experience to deal with environmental challenges, but somehow fail to get our affairs in order.
Frank Uekotter ist Dozent fur die Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts an der Universitat Birmingham. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die Umwelt- und Agrargeschichte, die Geschichte von Wissenschaft und Technik sowie die geisteswissenschaftliche Umweltforschung. Er schreibt regelmassig uber umweltpolitische Themen fur Focus Online.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822947561 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822947560 |
| Title | The Vortex |
| Author | Frank Uekötter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2024-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 848 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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