Cataclysms

Author : Laurent Testot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226609263

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Cataclysms by Laurent Testot Pdf

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclysms, Laurent Testot provides the full tally, offering a comprehensive environmental history of humanity’s unmatched and perhaps irreversible influence on the world. Testot explores the interconnected histories of human evolution and planetary deterioration, arguing that our development from naked apes to Homo sapiens has entailed wide-scale environmental harm. Testot makes the case that humans have usually been catastrophic for the planet, “hyperpredators” responsible for mass extinctions, deforestation, global warming, ocean acidification, and unchecked pollution, as well as the slaughter of our own species. Organized chronologically around seven technological revolutions, Cataclysms unspools the intertwined saga of humanity and our environment, from our shy beginnings in Africa to today’s domination of the planet, revealing how we have blown past any limits along the way—whether by exploding our own population numbers, domesticating countless other species, or harnessing energy from fossils. Testot’s book, while sweeping, is light and approachable, telling the stories—sometimes rambunctious, sometimes appalling—of how a glorified monkey transformed its own environment beyond all recognition. In order to begin reversing our environmental disaster, we must have a better understanding of our own past and the incalculable environmental costs incurred at every stage of human innovation. Cataclysms offers that understanding and the hope that we can now begin to reform our relationship to the Earth.

Author : Bradley Skopyk
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816539963

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Colonial Cataclysms by Bradley Skopyk Pdf

The contiguous river basins that flowed in Tlaxcala and San Juan Teotihuacan formed part of the agricultural heart of central Mexico. As the colonial project rose to a crescendo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Indigenous farmers of central Mexico faced long-term problems standard historical treatments had attributed to drought and soil degradation set off by Old World agriculture. Instead, Bradley Skopyk argues that a global climate event called the Little Ice Age brought cold temperatures and elevated rainfall to the watersheds of Tlaxcala and Teotihuacan. With the climatic shift came cataclysmic changes: great floods, human adaptations to these deluges, and then silted wetlands and massive soil erosion. This book chases water and soil across the colonial Mexican landscape, through the fields and towns of New Spain’s Native subjects, and in and out of some of the strongest climate anomalies of the last thousand or more years. The pursuit identifies and explains the making of two unique ecological crises, the product of the interplay between climatic and anthropogenic processes. It charts how Native farmers responded to the challenges posed by these ecological rifts with creative use of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds, environmental engineering, and conflict within and beyond the courts. With a new reading of the colonial climate and by paying close attention to land, water, and agrarian ecologies forged by farmers, Skopyk argues that colonial cataclysms—forged during a critical conjuncture of truly unprecedented proportions, a crucible of human and natural forces—unhinged the customary ways in which humans organized, thought about, and used the Mexican environment. This book inserts climate, earth, water, and ecology as significant forces shaping colonial affairs and challenges us to rethink both the environmental consequences of Spanish imperialism and the role of Indigenous peoples in shaping them.

Author : Dan Diner
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299223533

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Cataclysms by Dan Diner Pdf

Cataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers of decision-making, the virtual narrator sits perched on the legendary stairs of Odessa and watches as events between the Baltic and the Aegean pass in review, unfolding in space and time between 1917 and 1989, while evoking the nineteenth century as an interpretative backdrop. Influenced by continental historical, legal, and social thought, Dan Diner views the totality of world history evolving from an Eastern and Southeastern European angle. A work of great synthesis, Cataclysms chronicles twentieth century history as a “universal civil war” between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and West. Diner’s interpretation rotates around cataclysmic events in the transformation from multinational empires into nation states, accompanied by social revolution and “ethnic cleansing,” situating the Holocaust at the core of the century’s predicament. Unlike other Eurocentric interpretations of the last century, Diner also highlights the emerging pivotal importance of the United States and the impact of decolonization on the process of European integration.

Author : Michael R. Rampino
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231544870

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Cataclysms by Michael R. Rampino Pdf

In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other fauna from the Earth 66 million years ago. Scientists found evidence for this theory in a “crater of doom” on the Yucatán Peninsula, showing that our planet had once been a target in a galactic shooting gallery. In Cataclysms, Michael R. Rampino builds on the latest findings from leading geoscientists to take “neocatastrophism” a step further, toward a richer understanding of the science behind major planetary upheavals and extinction events. Rampino recounts his conversion to the impact hypothesis, describing his visits to meteor-strike sites and his review of the existing geological record. The new geology he outlines explicitly rejects nineteenth-century “uniformitarianism,” which casts planetary change as gradual and driven by processes we can see at work today. Rampino offers a cosmic context for Earth’s geologic evolution, in which cataclysms from above in the form of comet and asteroid impacts and from below in the form of huge outpourings of lava in flood-basalt eruptions have led to severe and even catastrophic changes to the Earth’s surface. This new geology sees Earth’s position in our solar system and galaxy as the keys to understanding our planet’s geology and history of life. Rampino concludes with a controversial consideration of dark matter’s potential as a triggering mechanism, exploring its role in heating Earth’s core and spurring massive volcanism throughout geologic time.

Author : Jon Erickson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Earth sciences
ISBN : 9781438109695

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Quakes, Eruptions, and Other Geologic Cataclysms by Jon Erickson Pdf

Covers earthquakes, floods, dust storms, meteor showers, volcanoes, landslides, glaciation, and mass extinctions.

Author : Karl H. Isselstein
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0787304654

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Ancient Cataclysms Which Changed Earth's Surface by Karl H. Isselstein Pdf

1965 One of the most important booklets we've ever published (Anthropology). If you have visited Petroglyph Park, Nanaimo, Canada; Painted Desert, Arizona; the Dalles, Oregon; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Spokane, Washington; Billings, Montana and var.

Author : D. S. Allan,J. B. Delair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781591438144

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Cataclysm! by D. S. Allan,J. B. Delair Pdf

Follow this multi-disciplinary, scientific study as it examines the evidence of a great global catastrophe that occurred only 11,500 years ago. Crustal shifting, the tilting of Earth's axis, mass extinctions, upthrusted mountain ranges, rising and shrinking land masses, and gigantic volcanic eruptions and earthquakes--all indicate that a fateful confrontation with a destructive cosmic visitor must have occurred. The abundant geological, biological, and climatological evidence from this dire event calls into question many geological theories and will awaken our memories to our true--and not-so-distant--past.

Author : Norma Hickox
Publisher : Book World/Blue Star
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1881542289

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Cataclysms? by Norma Hickox Pdf

In the mid 80's, predictions of catastrophic earth changes surfaced and the word went out that our days on Earth were numbered. Hickox, too, received such messages, but then, her visions began to change and she discovered that she was not seeing visions of the future, but of the past! Cataclysms ...a Must read for everyone concerned about the coming days of darkness!

Author : Brenda K. Bryant,Gary R. VandenBos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:906400654

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Cataclysms, Crises, and Catastrophes by Brenda K. Bryant,Gary R. VandenBos Pdf

Author : Kurt M. Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815701552

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Climatic Cataclysm by Kurt M. Campbell Pdf

Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers experts on climate science, oceanography, history, political science, foreign policy, and national security to take the measure of these risks. The contributors have developed three scenarios of what the future may hold. The expected scenario relies on current scientific models to project the effects of climate change over the next 30 years. The severe scenario, which posits a much stronger climate response to current levels of carbon loading, foresees profound and potentially destabilizing global effects over the next generation or more. Finally, the catastrophic scenario is characterized by a devastating "tipping point" in the climate system, perhaps 50 or 100 years hence. In this future world, the land-based polar ice sheets have disappeared, global sea levels have risen dramatically, and the existing natural order has been destroyed beyond repair. The contributors analyze the security implications of these scenarios, which at a minimum include increased disease proliferation; tensions caused by large-scale migration; and conflict sparked by resource scarcity, particularly in Africa. They consider what we can learn from the experience of early civilizations confronted with natural disaster, and they ask what the three largest emitters of greenhouse gases—the United States, the European Union, and China—can do to reduce and manage future risks. In the coming decade, the United States faces an ominous set of foreign policy and national security challenges. Global climate change will not only complicate these tasks, but as this sobering study reveals, it may also create new challenges that dwarf those of today. Contributors include Leon Fuerth (George Washington University), Jay Gulledge (Pew Center on Global Climate Change), Alexander T. J. Lennon (Center for Strategic and International Studies), J.R. McNeil

Author : John Eliot Allen,Marjorie Burns,Sam C. Sargent
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Erosion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016421252

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Cataclysms on the Columbia by John Eliot Allen,Marjorie Burns,Sam C. Sargent Pdf

For years the formation of the Grand Coulee remained a mystery until J Harlen Bretz set out to prove that the Columbia River basin was the site of huge floods 15,000 years ago that covered 16,000 square miles to depths of hundreds of feet & created the landscape we see today.

Author : Chan Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bible and geology
ISBN : 1884600018

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The Adam and Eve Story by Chan Thomas Pdf

This is the Book of the Century! At LAST someone - this time a basic research scientist - has come forth with proof of cataclysms, which are worldwide supersonic inundations such as Noah's flood. They were discovered by great men such as Andre DeLuc, Baron Georges Cuvier and Guy de Dolomieu, and have remained unsolved mysteries ever since. Now the author takes you through thrilling solutions of finding the process of catclysms, their timetable, and the derivation of trigger, a 20-year search. Truly, CATACLYSMS LEAVE NO ONE UNTOUCHED! He describes the next cataclysm in awesome detail plus the deterioration of civilization and the escalation of crime before the next cataclysm. It just so happens that the author's scientific prediction of the next cataclysm agrees with clairvoyants Nostradamus', Cayce's, and Scallion's predictions. Never before have facts been presented in such a spine-tingling, inspiring fashion; and never have so many secrets been unlocked in one book. This is the most stirring subject, written in the most intriguing, engrossing, and exciting style ever. You will remember this exceptional book for years! Available from: Bengal Tiger Press, Drawer 1212, South Chatham, MA 02659; Tel: 800-431-4590; FAX: 508-432-0697.

Author : Lawrence E. Joseph
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780062061935

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Solar Cataclysm by Lawrence E. Joseph Pdf

Science journalist and futurist Lawrence Joseph has studied the unprecedented solar storms since the last ice age and in Solar Cataclysm he reveals the monumental ecological, biological, emotional, political, financial, and cultural effects they have had in the past, and will ultimately have on humanity’s future. This timely, fascinating, and relevant book from the bestselling author of Apocalypse 2012 sounds an intelligent and urgent warning about the possible catastrophic consequences we will face in the coming years if we don’t listen to what the sun is trying to tell us. Popular science fans who made The World Without Us a runaway bestseller, readers open to new angles on history like those presented in Guns, Germs, and Steel, and anyone who is concerned about tomorrow and what we can do to ensure humankind’s survival must read Solar Cataclysm.

Author : Alison Evans
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760685959

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Highway Bodies by Alison Evans Pdf

Bodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. No access to social media. And a dad who'll suddenly bite your head off - literally. These teens have to learn a new resilience... Members of a band wield weapons instead of instruments. A pair of siblings find there's only so much you can joke about, when the menace is this strong. And a couple find depth among the chaos. Highway Bodies is a unique zombie apocalypse story featuring a range of queer and gender non-conforming teens who have lost their families and friends and can only rely upon each other.

Author : Hugh Auchincloss Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : UCAL:B4331202

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Cataclysms of the Earth by Hugh Auchincloss Brown Pdf