Abstract
The publication of the journalist Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature (1989) sounded an alarm of global proportions and brought focus to numerous issues faced by this generation of scholars and activists. Generations of humanity, acting carelessly but largely without intentional malice, had polluted and altered our planet and its atmosphere.
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See for example the essay review by Deborah R. Coen (2008).
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Donald R. Burnette, ‘Imperfect Succession: The Impact and Legacy of Frederic E. Clements,’ dissertation in progress at Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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On the use of metaphors in biology and beyond see: Schlanger (1971).
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Newell, C.L., Osborne, M.A. (2009). Nature, Technology and the Human Condition. In: Drenthen, M., Keulartz, F., Proctor, J. (eds) New Visions of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2611-8_20
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