Bibliograph

The war and environment reader, Gar Smith, editor

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The war and environment reader, Gar Smith, editor

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The war and environment reader

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1000238641

Responsibility statement

Gar Smith, editor

Table Of Contents

Front Cover; Praise for The War and Environment Reader; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Enheduanna's Lament; Introduction: Beyond Terracide and Permawar Gar Smith; Part I: Permawar-Human Nature and War; The Roots of War; Stones to Drones: A History of War on Earth -- Gar Smith; Patriarchy and War: Treating Nature Like Dirt -- Vandana Shiva; U.S. Exceptionalism: The Hubris That Fuels Wars -- Marjorie Cohn; Blowback: Climate Change and Resource Wars -- Michael T. Klare; War Is Not Biological -- Margaret Mead; Lessons from the Bonobos -- Sally Jewell Coxe; The Business of WarWar Is a Racket -- Major-General Smedley ButlerWar as an Economic Strategy -- Jerry Mander; An Empire of Military Bases -- Hugh Gusterson; The High Costs of a Warfare Economy -- Dave Gilson; Disaster Capitalism on the Battlefield -- William J. Astore; "False Flags": How Wars Are Packaged and Sold -- James Corbett; Banking on the Bomb: Investing in Nuclear Weapons -- Susi Snyder and Wilbert van der Zeijden; Recruiting America's Child Soldiers -- Ann Jones; Part II: Terracide-The War on Nature; Nature in the Crosshairs; Afghanistan: Bombing the Land of the Snow Leopard -- Joshua FrankAfrica: Wars on Wildlife -- Dr. Jane GoodallEl Salvador: Scorched Earth in Central America -- Gar Smith; Guam: The Tip of America's Global Spear -- Catherine Lutz; Kuwait: The War That Wounded the World -- William Thomas; Serbia: The Impact of NATO's Bombs -- Phillip Frazer; Sardinia: Bombs and Cancer in Paradise -- Helen Jaccard; Vietnam: Delivering Death to the A Luoi Valley -- Elizabeth Kemf; Collateral Damage; Baghdad: A Civilization Torn to Pieces -- Robert Fisk; Ukraine: Civil War and Combat Pollution -- Doug Weir; Syria: Cities Reduced to Toxic Rubble -- Wim Zwijnenburg and Kristine te PasWars and Refugees -- Tom H. HastingsCivilian Victims of Killer Drones -- Medea Benjamin; The Navy's Sonic War on Whales -- Pierce Brosnan; A Field Guide to Militarism; The Militarization of Native Lands -- Winona LaDuke; Wars Are No Longer Fought on Battlefields -- David Swanson; War on Land: Toxic Burdens and Military Exercises -- Susan D. Lanier-Graham; War on the Sea: Islands under Siege -- Koohan Paik; Wars for Sand: The Mortar of Empires -- Denis Delestrac; War at a Distance: Long-Range Missiles -- Jon Letman; War in Space: Astro-Imperialism -- Karl Grossman; The Machinery of MayhemFueling the Engines of Empire -- Barry SandersSuperpower, Superpolluter -- Tyrone Savage; Jet Fright: The Impacts of Military Aircraft -- Petra Loesch; Land Mines: The Smallest WMDs -- Jody Williams; Explosive Arsenals: "Bomblets" to "Near-Nukes" -- Helen Caldicott; Weather as a Weapon: "Owning the Weather in 2025" -- U.S. Air Force; Nuclear Doomsday -- Daniel Ellsberg; The Aftermath; Graveyards, Waste, and War Junk -- Susan D. Lanier-Graham; The Pentagon's Toxic Burn Pits -- Katie Drummond; America's "Downwinders" -- James Lerager; Atomic Islands and "Jellyfish Babies" -- Darlene Keju-JohnsonHaunted by Memories of War -- S. Brian Willson

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