In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic and ecological issues-including the American livestock industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the on-going problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.
發表於2024-12-03
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Worster既不是一個生態學傢,也不是一個經濟學傢,或許正是由於他隻關注於曆史的循環演替,而沒有陷入現代技術的沼澤,纔得以用更廣闊的視野和更富穿透力的目光來跨越狹隘的所謂“專業”的藩籬,從曆史中來探詢現實問題的根源。 人類社會的發展與傳統自然體係的衝突已然不可避...
評分Worster既不是一個生態學傢,也不是一個經濟學傢,或許正是由於他隻關注於曆史的循環演替,而沒有陷入現代技術的沼澤,纔得以用更廣闊的視野和更富穿透力的目光來跨越狹隘的所謂“專業”的藩籬,從曆史中來探詢現實問題的根源。 人類社會的發展與傳統自然體係的衝突已然不可避...
評分Worster既不是一個生態學傢,也不是一個經濟學傢,或許正是由於他隻關注於曆史的循環演替,而沒有陷入現代技術的沼澤,纔得以用更廣闊的視野和更富穿透力的目光來跨越狹隘的所謂“專業”的藩籬,從曆史中來探詢現實問題的根源。 人類社會的發展與傳統自然體係的衝突已然不可避...
評分Worster既不是一個生態學傢,也不是一個經濟學傢,或許正是由於他隻關注於曆史的循環演替,而沒有陷入現代技術的沼澤,纔得以用更廣闊的視野和更富穿透力的目光來跨越狹隘的所謂“專業”的藩籬,從曆史中來探詢現實問題的根源。 人類社會的發展與傳統自然體係的衝突已然不可避...
評分Worster既不是一個生態學傢,也不是一個經濟學傢,或許正是由於他隻關注於曆史的循環演替,而沒有陷入現代技術的沼澤,纔得以用更廣闊的視野和更富穿透力的目光來跨越狹隘的所謂“專業”的藩籬,從曆史中來探詢現實問題的根源。 人類社會的發展與傳統自然體係的衝突已然不可避...
圖書標籤: 環境史 美國 科技史 社會史 history environmental-history
Worster's parents were from that area and suffered dust storms in 1930s.
評分Worster's parents were from that area and suffered dust storms in 1930s.
評分A good storyteller. But more descriptive than analytical.
評分die,capitalism,die!
評分groundbreaker, 也是真無聊……一直感覺有biblical narrative在裏麵。是capital-driven嗎?是的。 是capitalism-driven嗎,未必。作為環境曆史沒有看到平原被呈現成商品的根本原因。
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