Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

摘要: Prologue - peculiarities of a prodigal century economic growth since 1500, population 10,000 BC, energy history conclusion. Part 1 The music the spheres: lithosphere and pedosphere crust Earth -the basics Earth's crust, soil alchemy, pollution, earth movers, conclusion atmosphere urban atmosphere, air pollution before 1900, coal cities, smog megacities, recovering regional global -regional 1870, in Japan, acid rain, further consequences climate change stratosphere ozone, space hydrosphere water use basics, world supply, water, river lakes eutrophication, seas oceans, -depletions, dams diversions groundwater, diversions, taming floods draining wetlands, coastlines, biosphere eat be eaten microbiota first lords biosphere, land agriculture, forests, fish invasions whaling fishing, biological invasions, biodiversity sixth extinction, 2 Engines change: more people, bigger cities growth, migration, footprints metabolisms fuels, tools economics regimes environment, technological changes ideas politics big ideas, environmental international war, policies, epilogue so what?.