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Hardcover The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth Book

ISBN: 0231166486

ISBN13: 9780231166485

The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth

(Part of the Columbia Studies in International and Global History Series)

In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But the internationalists found hope in the idea of world government. In The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment, Perrin Selcer argues that the metaphor of "Spaceship Earth"--the idea of...

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