Arming Mother Nature
Book • 2017
Jacob Darwin Hamblin's 'Arming Mother Nature' examines Cold War-era efforts by military planners and scientists to harness or modify the environment as a tool of warfare.
The book traces proposals ranging from weather control and radioactive contamination to ecological disruption, showing how these ideas revealed the planet's susceptibility to human actions.
Hamblin argues that this militarized view of environmental manipulation helped create a form of catastrophic environmentalism focused on large-scale, long-lasting damage.
Drawing on archival sources, he connects weapons research to the emergence of environmental monitoring and concern about anthropogenic global change.
The work highlights ethical and political consequences of treating nature as both a battleground and a resource to be engineered.
The book traces proposals ranging from weather control and radioactive contamination to ecological disruption, showing how these ideas revealed the planet's susceptibility to human actions.
Hamblin argues that this militarized view of environmental manipulation helped create a form of catastrophic environmentalism focused on large-scale, long-lasting damage.
Drawing on archival sources, he connects weapons research to the emergence of environmental monitoring and concern about anthropogenic global change.
The work highlights ethical and political consequences of treating nature as both a battleground and a resource to be engineered.
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