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A Climate of Crisis

America in the Age of Environmentalism

ISBN-13: 9780143127017

Contributor(s): Patrick Allitt

Subject: History of the Americas

Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books (usa)

Publication Date: 09-04-2015

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£16.99

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About the book

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.