A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism
Author(s): Patrick Allitt
Few topics incite more passion and controversy than the idea of climate change. Historian Patrick Allitt argues that a mood of anxiety has long surrounded environmental issues, often eclipsing important realities. In A Climate of Crisis, he offers a provocative history of American environmentalism: from nuclear fears to antipollution protests. He argues that great progress has been made in health, living standards and life expectancy, despite exaggeration and fear-mongering from all sides that have obscured it.
General Information
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- : Penguin Putnam Inc
- : Penguin USA
- : 0.355
- : 08 April 2015
- : United States
- : 27 May 2015
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Patrick Allitt
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 333.720973
- : 386
More About The Product
Patrick Allitt is the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University, where he has taught since 1988. He was an undergraduate at Oxford and a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University. The author of six books, he is also the presenter of eight lecture series with "The Great Courses," including "The Art of Teaching."
