Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Apocalyptic Moment: Writing About Environmental Alarmism / Frank Uekötter
1. Power, Politics, and Protecting the Forest: Scares About Wood Shortages and Deforestation in Early Modern German States / Bernd-Stefan Grewe
2. Grassroots Apocalypticism: The Great Upcoming Air Pollution Disaster in Postwar America / Frank Uekötter
3. "A Computer's Vision Of Doomsday": On The History of the 1972 Study The Limits to Growth / Patrick Kupper and Elke Seefried
4. The Sum of All German Fears: Forest Death, Environmental Activism, and the Media in 1980s Germany / Frank Uekötter and Kenneth Anders
5. The Endangered Amazon Rain Forest in The Age of Ecological Crisis / Kevin Niebauer
6. Greenpeace and the Brent Spar Campaign: A Platform for Several Truths / Anna-Katharina Wöbse
7. A Landscape of Multiple Emergencies: Narratives of the Dal Lake in Kashmir / Shalini Panjabi
8. The Adivasi Versus Coca-Cola: A Local Environmental Conflict and its Global Resonance / Bernd-Stefan Grewe
Notes
Contributors
Index