The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future

An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis “This book does something that is worth doing and that no other scholarly book I know of comes close to doing: tracing the history of imagined environmental futures in the Western world.”—William Meyer, Colgate University For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the earth. Michael Rawson uses ...