Laakkonen, Simo (Author)
Pál, Viktor (Author)
Tucker, Richard P. (Author)
Cold War History
Volume: 16
Issue: 4
Pages: 377-394
Edition Details: Special Section: Militarised Landscapes: Environmental Histories of the Cold War
Language: English
The Cold War was not only for the hearts and minds of people, it was also for their mouths and bellies, that is, for food, energy and raw materials. This signified a global power struggle over the control of natural resources. In addition to the increasing consumption of natural resources and resulting pollution, the destructive capacity of the weapons of mass destruction compelled human beings to recognise that their activities could ultimately endanger the planet earth. The Cold War was a propagator and framework for the birth of global catastrophism and also for the emergence of a global environmental awareness. Nature, its exploitation and also gradually its protection, opened up yet another front in the Cold War. Yet the relationship between the Cold War and the environment was reciprocal. On the one hand, concerns over environmental contamination or destruction called into question the meaningfulness of the Cold War itself. On the other hand, the specific sociopolitical structures of the Cold War deeply affected the emergence of environmental ideas, ideals, organisations and activities in different continents.
...MoreArticle Edwin A. Martini (2016) World on fire: the politics of napalm in the Global Cold War. Cold War History (pp. 463-481).
Article Stephen Brain (2016) The appeal of appearing green: Soviet-American ideological competition and Cold War environmental diplomacy. Cold War History (pp. 443-462).
Article Sanita Reinsone (2016) Forbidden and sublime forest landscapes: narrated experiences of Latvian national partisan women after World War II. Cold War History (pp. 395-416).
Article Thomas Robertson (2016) Cold War landscapes: towards an environmental history of US development programmes in the 1950s and 1960s. Cold War History (pp. 417-441).
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