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Download and Read Militarizing the Environment Book PDF ByRobert P. Marzec Total Download 29 “A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” –Edward Morgan Synopsis 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 adap
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