Vortex, The - University of Pittsburgh Press
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9780822947561|An Environmental History of the Modern World|Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises—climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes—means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uekötter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment throughout history. Ours is not a one-way trajectory to sudden collapse, he argues, but rather death by a thousand cuts. The many paths we’ve forged to arrive in our current predicament, from agriculture to
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Science says: Get used to polar vortex outbreaks
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Backlash Mounts at Pitt for Allowing Speakers Who Students Say Are Transphobic
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Pittsburgh braces for polar vortex, Pitt cancels Wednesday classes - The Pitt News
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2011 SSOE Statistical Summary by PITT SWANSON School of Engineering - Issuu
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Vortex Helicopter Tours - 1 WORLD. BLUPELA DIGITAL
Sohan D Jadhav - Graduate Teaching Assistant - UCLA
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Vortex Domain Walls in Ferroelectrics
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Polar vortex hits Midwest: 'Avoid the outdoors
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Book review – The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World
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Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle 11-25-22 by Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle - Issuu
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How much Pittsburgh's largest buildings contribute to climate change is public
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Inside … The Pitt Press there are lots of books, and a pool table(?), University Times
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No, this polar vortex doesn't disprove global warming - The Pitt News