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CHAOS IN THE HEAVENS - JEAN-BAPTISTE FRESSOZ FA...

Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet  in Chaos in the Heavens  
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the
consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever
history accelerated: by the conquistadors in the New World  by the French revolutionaries of
1789  by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth century  by the European imperialists
in Asia and Africa until the Second World War.  Climate change was at the heart of fundamental
debates about colonisation  God  the state  nature  and capitalism. From these intellectual and
political battles emerged key concepts of contemporary environmental science and policy. For a
brief interlude  science and industry instilled in us the reassuring illusion of an impassive
climate. But  in the age of global warming  we must  once again  confront the chaos in the
heavens.

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