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Lewis, Chris H. "Progress and Apocalypse: Science and the End of the Modern World," University of Minnesota, January 1991. Advisor: David W. Noble (20, 2, 18)
Using research and methods from cultural and environmental history, this study examines the development of a scientific critique of modernity after WWII by activist scientists such as Aldo leopold, Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, and Paul Ehrlich. In their writings and speeches, these scientists use a shared apocalyptic rhetoric to call for a popular crusade to save nature and humanity. Apocalyptic ecologists warned that unless modern industrial civilization transformed its understanding and use of the natural world it would collapse and humanity would be threatened with extinction. they made ecology both a science and politics of human survival.
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