| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Ecocide/ Franz Broswimmer. |
| Reminder of title: |
a short history of mass extinction of species / |
| Author: |
Broswimmer, Franz J. |
| Published: |
London ;Pluto Press, : 2002., |
| Description: |
xii, 204 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction -- Problem ; Why bother? ; Etiology of ecocide ; chapter outline -- Part I : Human odyssey : from biological to cultural evolution -- Beginnings ; From tree shrews to primates ; Fire use and dietary changes ; Rise of modern humans ; Megafauna extinction ; Pivotal role of language -- Part II : Problematic society--nature relations before the modern era -- Neolithic revolution ; Ecological blunders of antiquity : Mesopotamians, Southwest Asia : 3700 BCE to 1600 BCE ; Greeks, Mediterranean : 770 BCE to 30 BCE ; Romans, Mediterranean : 500 BCE to 500 CE ; Chaco Anasazi, Northwestern New Mexico : 700 CE to 1300 CE ; Mayas, Mesoamerica : 200 CE to 900 CE ; Easter Islanders, Rapa Nui : 700 CE to 1700 CE -- Part III : Modern assault on nature : the making of ecocide -- Capitalist system : a brief historical and sociological overview ; Rise of scientific and technological thinking ; Capitalist ethos : ecological and social values ; Social and ecological implications of the Columbian exchange ; Enslavement of land and nature ; Early modern fur trade ; Mass slaughter of the North American bison ; Rise of commercial whaling -- Part IV : Planet as sacrifice zone -- Enclosure of the commons : a global phenomenon ; Industrial Revolution ; Ecology and modern warfare ; Ecocide and modern warfare ; Planet as national sacrifice zone ; Planet as demographic sacrifice zone -- Part V : Ecocide and globalization -- Impact of globalism ; Poverty and ecocide ; Terminal grand buffet? ; Ecocide and the global treadmill of production ; Failure of environmental education ; Ideological turn ; Currents of ecological democracy ; Imperatives of ecological democracy ; Envisioning an equitable global commons -- Epilogue : Living in the age of ecocide. |
| Subject: |
Biological diversity conservation - Social aspects. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=102335An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585488851 (electronic bk.) |