UID:
almafu_9959238809402883
Format:
1 online resource (224 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78371-348-8
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1-84964-159-5
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0-585-48885-1
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The problem -- Why bother? -- Etiology of ecocide -- Chapter outline -- 1 The Human Odyssey: From Biological to Cultural Evolution -- Beginnings -- From Tree Shrews to Primates -- Fire Use and Dietary Changes -- The Rise of Modern Humans -- The Megafauna Extinction -- The Pivotal Role of Language -- 2 Problematic Society-Nature Relations Before the Modern Era -- The Neolithic Revolution -- Ecological Blunders of Antiquity -- 3 The Modern Assault on Nature: The Making of Ecocide -- The Capitalist System: A Brief Historical and Sociological Overview -- The Rise of Scientific and Technological Thinking -- The Capitalist Ethos: Ecological and Social Values -- Social and Ecological Implications of the Columbian Exchange -- The Enslavement of Land and Nature -- Early Modern Fur Trade -- The Mass Slaughter of the North American Bison -- The Rise of Commercial Whaling -- 4 The Planet as Sacrifice Zone -- The Enclosure of the Commons: A Global Phenomenon -- The Industrial Revolution -- Ecology and Modern Warfare -- Ecocide and Modern Warfare -- The Planet as National Sacrifice Zone -- The Planet as Demographic Sacrifice Zone -- 5 Ecocide and Globalization -- The Impact of Globalism -- Poverty and Ecocide -- A Terminal Grand Buffet? -- Ecocide and the Global Treadmill of Production -- The Failure of Environmental Education -- The Ideological Turn -- The Currents of Ecological Democracy -- The Imperatives of Ecological Democracy -- Envisioning an Equitable Global Commons -- Epilogue Living in the Age of Ecocide -- Glossary -- Tables -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- absolutism, 56 -- accountability, TNCs' lack of, 86 -- acid rain 103 -- Adams, Robert 37 -- advertising 176n -- Africa 19-20 -- as origin of Homo sapiens, 19-20 -- biodiversity hotspots, 84 -- capita income, 88.
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change, 14 -- change, 16 -- early hominids in, 13 -- early hominids in, 145n -- megafauna extinction, 24 -- megafauna extinction, 124 -- slaves for plantations, 60-1 -- agency 96 -- human, 96 -- human, 96 -- human, 104 -- human, 104 -- Agent Orange' 76 -- agribusiness 87-8 -- 87-8 -- 123 -- agriculture 61 -- effect of monocultures, 61 -- effect of monocultures, 138-9 -- in New Mexico, 45 -- intensified, 38 -- intensified, 55-6 -- intensified, 84 -- intensified, 93 -- intensified, 123 -- origins of, 30-1 -- sedentary, 4 -- sedentary, 9 -- sedentary, 23 -- sedentary, 29-32 -- sedentary, 104 -- agro-systems 31 -- agrodiversity 106 -- Alaska 66 -- 66 -- 68 -- 92 -- Alcibiades, Athenian general 41 -- alienation 106 -- Amazon River valley 2 -- Americas 60 -- alien species in, 60 -- discovery of, 59 -- early humans in, 22 -- Pleistocene population, see also -- Pleistocene population, 26 -- Amin, Samir 59 -- ancient civilizations, causes of decline 32 -- Andes, tropical 84 -- Animals 76 -- destroyed by warfare, 76 -- destroyed by warfare, 77 -- domestication of, see also megafauna -- domestication of, 30-1 -- domestication of, 122 -- domestication of, 123 -- domestication of, 152nn -- anthropocentrism 106 -- anti-nuclear activism 79 -- Aotearoa see New Zealand aquaculture, Asia 90 -- Arendt, Hannah 32 -- Aridipecus [human predecessors] 12 -- 12 -- 121 -- 144n -- 145n -- Aristotle 40 -- 40 -- 177n -- armed forces, greenhouse gas emissions 78 -- arms race 72 -- 72 -- 73 -- 74 -- 105 -- 123 -- and demilitarization, 81 -- and demilitarization, 84 -- and demilitarization, 168n -- art, representative 21 -- 21 -- 22 -- artefacts 48 -- Chaco Anasazi civilization, 48 -- development of, 9 -- development of, 17 -- Asia, Southeast, commercial whaling see also Eurasia -- warfare, see also Eurasia -- warfare, see also Eurasia.
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warfare, 74-5 -- warfare, 74-5 -- warfare, 101 -- warfare, 101 -- asteroid collision, Yucatan peninsula 2 -- astronomy, Sumerian 36 -- Athens, ancient 40-1 -- Atomic Photography Guild 79-80 -- Attica [ancient Greece], deforestation 34 -- Australia 22 -- early humans in, 22 -- early humans in, 148n -- megafauna extinction, 24 -- megafauna extinction, 25 -- megafauna extinction, 124 -- megafauna extinction, 148nn -- Australopithecus [human predecessors] 12 -- 12 -- 106 -- 145n -- autonomy, centrality of 58 -- Aztec empire 34 -- background extinctions 3 -- 3 -- 106 -- Bacon, Francis 56 -- 56 -- 57 -- Baikal, Lake 79 -- baleen whale 67 -- basic needs 100 -- bear, white 6 -- beaver, fur for hats 64-5 -- 64-5 -- 162n -- Benjamin, Walter 73 -- Bering Sea, fur seal 66 -- Bickerton, Derek 27 -- big game hunting 18-19 -- 18-19 -- 23 -- 24 -- 30 -- 60 -- 147n -- biodiversity 1 -- 1 -- 101 -- 107 -- conservation solutions, 134 -- economic uses of, 8 -- economic uses of, 119 -- expansive threats to, 84 -- human agency and changes in, 123 -- intensive risks to, 84 -- loss of, 11 -- loss of, 125 -- mechanisms of loss, 125 -- biodiversity hotspots 4 -- 4 -- 84 -- 101 -- 112 -- 128-9 -- bioinvasion see also invasive species -- see also invasive species -- 107 -- biological warfare 73 -- 73 -- 97 -- bioregion 107 -- biosphere 31 -- 31 -- 71 -- 107 -- bipedalism 15 -- birds, extinctions see also dodo -- flightless, see also dodo -- flightless, 25 -- flightless, 148n -- bison, European 6 -- North American, 6 -- North American, 6 -- North American, 24 -- North American, 24 -- North American, 60 -- North American, 60 -- North American, 66-7 -- North American, 66-7 -- blue whales 68 -- 68 -- 69 -- bombing, Vietnam 76 -- bonobo chimpanzee, genetic similarity to man 12 -- 12 -- 13-14 -- 144n -- Borgstrom, George 34 -- bourgeois society 107.
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Brazil 88 -- deforestation, 88 -- deforestation, 88 -- deforestation, 174n -- deforestation, 174n -- Brecht, Bertolt 1 -- Bronze Age see also Mesopotamian -- see also Mesopotamian -- 35 -- Brundtland Report [1987] 98 -- burial rituals, Neanderthal 20 -- 20 -- 146n -- business, responsibilities of 99 -- calendar, lunar 21-2 -- Cambodia, ecological warfare 76 -- Cambrian period 107 -- cancer, drugs from natural substances 8 -- Canetti, Elias 7 -- 7 -- 103 -- capital, global, controls on 99 -- capitalism, complexity of 58 -- and systemic nature of exponential growth, 58 -- and systemic nature of exponential growth, 97 -- and triangular trade, 61-2 -- and warfare, 73 -- early modern, 63 -- early modern, 123 -- emergence of, 54-6 -- globalization of, 4 -- globalization of, 87-8 -- capitalist mode of production 10 -- 10 -- 55-6 -- carbon dioxide 6 -- 6 -- 139 -- Caribbean, biodiversity hotspot 84 -- 84 -- megafauna extinctions, 26 -- megafauna extinctions, 124 -- plantations, 60-1 -- carrying capacity 91-2 -- 91-2 -- 108 -- 115 -- 174n -- Carthage, Roman destruction of 74 -- 74 -- 157n -- 165n -- Cato the Elder 43 -- Catton, William 91 -- causality 96 -- cave paintings 22 -- 22 -- 23 -- 146-7n -- caves, occupation of 17 -- Central Asia, nuclear weapons testing 79 -- Chaco Anasazi civilization, New Mexico 45-8 -- 45-8 -- 158n -- Charles I, King of England 64 -- 64 -- 162n -- Chauvet [Rhone Valley], cave paintings 22 -- 22 -- 146-7n -- Chelyabinsk- 40 military city -- Chelyabinsk 40 military city -- Chelyabinsk 79 -- chemical warfare 73 -- 73 -- 97 -- chemicals, synthetic 94 -- Chernobyl disaster [1986] 79 -- chimpanzees 12 -- 12 -- 13-14 -- 144n -- China, environmental degradation in ancient 65 -- fur trade, 65 -- Yellow River flooding, 75 -- chitin, medical use of 8 -- chlorofluorocarbons 6 -- 6 -- 78 -- Chomsky, Noam 95.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius 29 -- cities, Mayan 48-9 -- city-states 39-40 -- Greek, 39-40 -- Italy, 159 -- Mesopotamia, 35 -- civil society 172n -- class society 70 -- and enclosure of commons, 70 -- capitalist, 54 -- Chaco Anasazi civilization, 47 -- Chaco Anasazi civilization, 48 -- proletarianization, 71 -- Sumerian, 36 -- climate change 2 -- and mass extinction, 2 -- global, 111 -- ice ages, 16 -- climate, adaptation to 20 -- Clovis hunters, North America 45 -- Club of Rome, The Limits of Growth 74 -- coastal wetlands 5 -- Cody, Buffalo Bill 67 -- Cohen, Mark 9 -- Cold War 73 -- 73 -- 79 -- colonialism 72 -- 72 -- 87 -- 108 -- 123 -- 161n -- Columbian Exchange' 59-60 -- Columbus, Christopher 59 -- commodification 11 -- global, 11 -- global, 11 -- global, 80 -- global, 80 -- global, 101-2 -- global, 101-2 -- conscious intentionality 9 -- 9 -- 17 -- 22 -- Conservation International 84 -- consumption, conspicuous [ancient Rome] 99 -- and economic growth, 99 -- and waste, 99 -- expected growth of, 84 -- expected growth of, 93 -- expected growth of, 170n -- globalization of, 98 -- per capita, 82 -- per capita, 93 -- per capita, 132 -- unsustainable, 83 -- unsustainable, 92-3 -- continental drift 1-2 -- 1-2 -- 16 -- contraception 80 -- 80 -- 85 -- 171n -- cooking 17-18 -- 17-18 -- 20-1 -- Corinth 41 -- corporation see also -- see also -- 87 -- 108 -- 160n -- Corsica, deforestation 39 -- crafts, manufacturing 31 -- critical theory 108 -- Cro-Magnon man 20 -- 20 -- 21-2 -- crops, and genetic diversity 61 -- monoculture, 61 -- monoculture, 61 -- monoculture, 138-9 -- monoculture, 138-9 -- Crosby, Alfred 59 -- Cuba, megafauna extinctions 26 -- cultural diffusion 64 -- cultural evolution 10 -- 10 -- 27-8 -- culture 58 -- complexity of capitalist, 58 -- Mayan, 48-9 -- rate of development, 27 -- Dacia, Roman conquest of 42.
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Davis, Mike 79.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7453-1934-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7453-1935-1
Language:
English
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