From the Publisher
Rawson’s book . . . leads us to think creatively about new ways of seeking and finding alternative histories of the environmental future.”—Rosalind Williams, American Historical Review“Rawson illustrates brilliantly how discussions of climate change are wedded to past visions of unlimited growth in which scarcity (peak soil, peak population, peak coal, peak oil) would be only a temporary obstacle to overcome.”—Kate Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“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
