Book ID: CBB217700694

Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State (2015)

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Marzec, Robert P. (Author)


University of Minnesota Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 304
Language: English

As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in "climate change war games," and preparing for the effects of climate change--from conflicts due to loss of food, water, and energy to the mass migration of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels. This combat-oriented stance stems from a self-destructive pattern of thought that Robert P. Marzec names "environmentality," an attitude that has been affecting human-environmental relations since the seventeenth century. Militarizing the Environment traces the rise of this influential mindset in America and other nations that threatens to supplant ideas of sustainability with demands for adaptation. In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political, and economic formations across five centuries, Marzec reveals how environmentality has been instrumental in the development of today's security society--informing the creation of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the National Security Act that established the CIA during the Cold War. Now embedded in contemporary Western thought, environmentality has even infiltrated scientific thinking--transforming Darwinian insights into a quasi-theology that makes security the biological basis of existence. Marzec exposes the self-destructive nature of this increasingly accepted worldview and offers alternatives that counter the blind alleys of national and global security.

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Authors & Contributors
Alessandra Landi
Kristen Wehner
Scott V. Valentine
Schendler, Auden
Giovanni Carrosio
Cole, Shawn A.
Concepts
Climate change
Environment
Environmental degradation
Anthropocene
Environmental history
Science and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Australia
New Zealand
Asia
United States
Italy
India
Institutions
Du Pont Company
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