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03649aam a22004094i 4500 001 FDFA5E444CD911E7A75DCED3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170609010334 008 151013s2016 maua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2015039497 020 $a 0674545036 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780674545038 035 $a (OCoLC)926050454 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YAM $d CDX $d OCLCO $d IOC $d SILO 050 00 $a GF75 .M39 2014 100 1 $a McNeill, John Robert, $e author. 245 14 $a The great acceleration $b an environmental history of the anthropocene since 1945 $c J.R. McNeill and Peter Engelke. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press $c 2014 300 $a 275 pages $b illustrations $c 21 cm 500 $a Originally published as Chapter 3 of Global Interdependence : the world after 1945 / edited by Akira Iriye. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index. 505 0 $a Energy and population -- Climate and biological diversity -- Cities and the economy -- Cold war and environmental culture. 520 $a "This book explains the scale, scope, pace, and character of environmental change around the world since the middle of the twentieth century as well as the reasons behind it. From the biology of the deep ocean to the chemistry of the stratosphere, and almost everywhere in between, human actions have led to ecological alterations great and small. While our species has exerted environmental impacts, occasionally substantial ones since the Paleolithic, never before has humankind had such an impact on the Earth. A massive uncontrolled experiment is underway. Where it might lead, no one can yet say. The reasons behind this environmental tumult are sometimes obvious and sometimes obscure. This book highlights the role of the modern energy system and the economic growth it has fostered, but pays heed as well to population growth, urbanization, migration, the Cold War, and environmentalisms, among other trends and phenomena that affected the global environment. The pace of indicators such as energy use, population growth, species extinctions, fresh water use, carbon dioxide emissions, and many more has led some students of environmental change to label the period after 1950 as The Great Acceleration. This book argues that concept is valid. In addition, it argues that the scale and scope of environmental change have altered basic biogeochemical cycles to the point where the Earth has entered a new period in its history: the Anthropocene. Humankind, too, has entered a new age in which it rivals natural forces in shaping the Earth, its biota, its climate, and its prospects."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Nature $x History $x History $y 20th century 650 0 $a Nature $x History $x History $y 21st century 650 0 $a Human ecology $x History $y 20th century 650 0 $a Human ecology $x History $y 21st century 650 0 $a Global environmental change $x History $y 20th century 650 0 $a Global environmental change $x History $y 21st century 700 1 $a Engelke, Peter, $e author. 787 08 $i Contained in (work): $t Global interdependence. $d Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014 $z 9780674045729 $w (OCoLC)840460722 $w (OCoLC)840460722 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092540.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707014053.0 952 $l URAX314 $d 20170609024403.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FDFA5E444CD911E7A75DCED3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IOCInitiate Another SILO Locator Search