Inventing Pollution

Peter Thorsheim

Series in Ecology and History

2018

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780821423110

Inglês

Inventing Pollution examines new understandings of pollution, centered not on organic decay but on coal combustion, that emerged in the late 19th century in Britain. This change, Thorsheim argues, gave birth to the smoke-abatement movement and to new ways of thinking about the relationships among humanity, technology, and the environment.