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Under the Sun leaves the reader depressed at the prospects for preventing further environmental damage and scared at the thought of what could happen if something does not drastically change.
While global institutions and strategic restraint can attempt to create a regime that slows down the pace of environmental decline, the entire biosphere faces the yet unknown consequences of the human experiment equally. Apr 25, Michael Brickey rated it it was amazing. In order to be an activist for change one must understand the multiple histories of all things status quo. McNeill lays out the facts in such a way that is informative, but more importantly, encourages you to read on.
Too often a history text will lack a narrative, but this one does not. If you'd like to learn more about the environmental transformations of the 20th century, anthropogenic or not, I recommend this book.
Jan 15, Riley rated it liked it. This environmental history is based on a fascinating premise: That because of all the technological changes that the 20th century engendered, its impact on the world we live in was unlike any other era's.
On the demerit side, the book reads like the textbook that it is. And because it casts such a wide net -- examining everything from whaling in Japan to groundwater in the high plains of the United States -- it takes on a survey-like quality in which too many topics are too briefly touched upon. Jan 18, Christine rated it it was amazing Shelves: favourite , nonfiction , environment-nature.
I read Something New Under the Sun as a required text for a class that all students were required to take before graduating. It was called The Contemporary World and had an Environmental focus.
I was getting my second bachelors in Nutrition and had taken courses in environmental Biology previously, but really knew nothing about the relationship between our environment and how environmental concerns affect our world economically and politically.
I'm glad now that our university made this mandat I read Something New Under the Sun as a required text for a class that all students were required to take before graduating. I'm glad now that our university made this mandatory reading. I truly learned a lot from this book about the environmental problems that face our world today and what it means to be a steward of the earth. So much of what I read here has shaped my actions and beliefs about environmentalism.
For our final term paper I got to chose any topic I wanted and focused on a nutrition-related problem: methylmercury contamination. Women of childbearing age and those who are pregnant are most at risk, as accumulation of mercury in our body can have devastating effects on neural development of existing or future embryos.
It affects all of our waterways and is ingested by all marine life. This is a real issue affecting public health and we have caused it. Methylmercury pollution is mostly a problem of human contamination; although quite more mercury than I thought does come from natural sources, like volcanic eruptions, we have truly destroyed our water with this toxic metal. I would love to read updated texts about the environment like this, since this was written over 15 years ago.
Sep 19, Jason rated it it was amazing. A fascinating history of many of the environmental problems that continue to plague the world. McNeill relates these problems as a historian, replete with interesting if at times tragic anecdotes. Such as the day in when particularly hazy conditions combined with an incredible amount of air pollution and stagnant winds in London resulting in the deaths of people.
Or the copper mine in Ashio, Japan in the s which brought on so much sulfur pollution that death rates exceeded birth A fascinating history of many of the environmental problems that continue to plague the world. Or the copper mine in Ashio, Japan in the s which brought on so much sulfur pollution that death rates exceeded birth rates, causing widespread protest. Nov 28, Zach rated it liked it Shelves: environmental-history. A very generalist environmental history of the world. With a topic that big, the book tends to skip over most of the more interesting historical moments in pursuit of a grand thesis: that humans have changed their environment throughout time.
A legitimate thesis, definitely; however, if you're looking for environmental history that really gets into the contexts of particular times, the contours of particular landscapes, and the conceptions of particular people, you'd be better served with the we A very generalist environmental history of the world. A legitimate thesis, definitely; however, if you're looking for environmental history that really gets into the contexts of particular times, the contours of particular landscapes, and the conceptions of particular people, you'd be better served with the wealth of other environmental history literature out there.
Aug 14, Heather rated it liked it. Mar 25, Richard Reese rated it it was amazing. Something New Under the Sun is the title of J. It describes a high-tech era when industrial society got thoroughly sloshed on cheap energy, and went on a berserk rampage, smashing everything. With the emergence of agriculture, the relationship between humankind and the ecosystem took a sharp turn onto a bumpy bloody unsustainable road. There are a few places where agriculture wrecks the land at a slower pace.
A region spanning from Poland to Ireland typically receives adequate rain in gentle showers, the lay of the land is not steep, and the heavy soils are not easily eroded. When the farming methods from this region were exported to North America, where heavy rains are common, it resulted in severe erosion. Many agricultural systems flamed out and vanished long ago. China has beat the odds, and remained in the farm business for over 3, years. This is often cited as proof that sustainable agriculture is possible.
But McNeill points out that their longevity is the result of sequentially replacing one unsustainable mode with a different unsustainable mode. They will eventually run out of tricks and flame out. A process that regularly pulverizes soils and depletes nutrients cannot have a long-term future, and irrigated systems usually flame out faster.
Food is one thing that humans actually need. McNeill describes how agriculture has become far more destructive in the last hundred years. It produces more food, degrades more land, and spurs population growth, seriously worsening many other problems.
Readers learn about erosion, heavy machinery, synthetic fertilizers, salinization, pesticides, herbicides, water mining, and so on.
Our ability to continue feeding a massive herd will face huge challenges in the coming years. In addition to troublesome agriculture, we stirred fossil energy and industrialization into the pot, and it exploded. The twentieth century was like an asteroid strike — a tumultuous pandemonium never seen before, that can never be repeated. History Deficiency Syndrome leads to a life of vivid hallucinations.
There is a highly effective antidote: learning. In this vast grotto, we record the many, many things that are never mentioned in the daylight world above, because they clash with our myths of progress and human superiority — similar to the way that dinosaur bones make creationists twitch and squirm.
The bones contradict the myths, an embarrassing dilemma. We keep them in the cave. In the normal daylight world, we are constantly blasted by a fire hose of frivolous information, ridiculous balderdash, and titillating rubbish. The myths are safe. The world was made for humans. We are the greatest. Economists became the nutjob gurus of the wacky cult of growth, and society guzzled their toxic Kool-Aid.
Crazy economists, who preached that society could get along without natural resources, won Nobel Prizes. They became respected advisors to world leaders. Environmentalists often sneer at the multitudes who fail to be enraged by the catastrophe of the week. They assume that the herd understands the issues. Few people in our society have a well-rounded understanding of our eco-predicaments, including most environmentalists.
Ignorance is enormously costly. One wee bright spot in the twentieth century was the emergence of Deep Ecology, a small group of renegade thinkers that enthusiastically denounced the dead end path of anthropocentricism. On the final pages, McNeill does not offer an intoxicating punch bowl of magical thinking. Our future is highly volatile, even the near future is uncertain.
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The authors cover a wide range of topics, from the integration of witchcraft and Christianity in Nigeria and the peacemaking role of churches in Mozambique to the American Baptist reception of Asian Christianity. The Changing Face of Christianity shows the striking cultural differences between the new world Christianity and its western counterpart.
But with so many new immigrants in Europe and North America, the faith's fault lines are not purely geographical. The new Christianity now thrives in American and European settings, and northerners need to know this faith better.
At stake is their ability to be good neighbors-and perhaps to be good Christian citizens of the world. This collection of thirteen essays is in honor of the distinguished scholarly career of Melvyn New, Professor Emeritus of the University of Florida. The first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. The final five essays focus specifically on Sterne, the primary subject of Professor New's career of more than four decades.
Contributors are both former students and colleagues and come from the United States, England, and France. They are Martha F. Bowden, Taylor Corse, W. Kronick, James E. Wehrs, and the three co-editors, W. Gerard, E.
Derek Taylor, and Robert G. We think we understand environmental damage: pollution, water scarcity, a warming world. But these problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Food insecurity, financial assets drained of value, and a rapid rise in diseases of animal origin are among the underreported consequences of an unsustainable global system.
In this volume, experts explore these hidden threats along with the central question of how we can develop resilience to these and other shocks. An innovative and provocative new approach to understanding American history turns readers attention to nature as the primary force shaping the course of the United States.
The book now stands as a classic of 20th-century philosophy.
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