A climate of crisis : America in the age of environmentalism / Patrick Allitt.

"Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongeri...

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Main Author: Allitt, Patrick (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Series:Penguin history of American life.
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Physical Description:xv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book

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