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Name: on the history and art of warming and ventilating rooms and buildings 1845
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Title: On the history and art of warming and ventilating rooms and buildings, by open fires, hypocausts, German, Dutch, Russian, and Swedish stoves, steam, hot water, heated air, heat of animals, and other methods; with notices of the progress of personal and fireside comfort, and of the management of fuel
Author: Rupert Darwall
Language: angielski
Year: 2014
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Quartet Books
ISBN: 9780704373396
Total pages: 282

Global warming defines our age. Understanding it in the context of the history of ideas offers a mirror to our times.

The Age of Global Warming answers these questions and more:

Why nineteenth-century predictions of eco-doom, which turned out to be wrong, are still believed
How the First Environmental Wave came crashing down during the economic crisis of the 70s
Why, amid renewed economic growth in the 80s, a Second Wave emerged - global warming finding an unlikely political champion in Margaret Thatcher as a result
How science became the spear-carrier of the environmental movement and global warming its most powerful argument
Why politics came to settle the science in the 90s, the world's governments agreeing to the UN climate change convention at the Rio Earth Summit - and why the developing world's opposition resulted in an unprecedented humiliation for the West at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009