Sabatier, Paul 136
Sacher, Eduard 191–2
Sahlins, Marshall 148
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de 180
Salesse, Jeanine 289
Say, Jean-Baptiste 30, 204, 207
science, divide between natural and human 30–1, 32
scientific ecology 179–85
scientific knowledge 23, 79
scientific revolution 68, 183
scientists, role of 79–83
Second Gulf War 123–4
Second World War 51, 122, 123, 124–5, 126, 130–1, 133, 134, 134, 136, 139–40, 144–7, 162–3, 213, 289
self-sufficiency 189
Serres, Michel 42, 49–50, 68, 74, 85
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein 82–3
ships and shipping 143
Shvets, M. Ye 91–2
Sierra Club 270
slave trade 231–2
Sloterdijk, Peter 32
Smith, Adam 151
social health 176
social justice 253
social relations 33, 36
social sciences 31, 66–72
society, separation from nature 27–32, 32, 75, 198–221
socio-bio-geosphere 35–6
socioecological systems 33, 34, 35–6, 66
Soddy, Frederick 191–2
solar energy 110–12, 113
Solow, Robert 212
Sombart, Werner 234
South, incorporation of the 265–7
sovereignty 40, 93
Soviet Union 103–4, 165, 244–5, 249
Spaceship Earth xiii, 47–8, 60, 60–4, 63, 68, 91
Spencer, Herbert 173
Spengler, Oswald 279
steam power 50, 51, 100–1, 103, 107, 108, 192, 203, 229, 258
Steffen, Will 5, 17, 51–2, 65–6, 73, 83, 84
Stengers, Isabelle 20–1, 22
Stoermer, Eugene 50
Stoppani, Antonio 4, 50, 181
stratigraphy 13–14
suburbanization 113–14, 138–9, 164–5
Suess, Hans 77
sulphur dioxide 25
sustainable development 19, 22–4, 215–16
Switzerland 277–8
Swyngedouw, Erik 71
systemic reflexivity 184
Tati, Jacques 283
technological innovation, resistance to 260–2
technological solutions, role of 80–3
Telkes, Mária 112
Teller, Edward 131
Tellier, Charles 111
temperature rise 6, 15, 24, 56, 107–8
terraforming 91–2
thermodynamics 226
Thévenot, Laurent 268
Thompson, E. P. 253
Thomson, William (later Lord Kelvin) 29, 191, 192
throw-away culture 159
tipping points 11–12, 21
Todt, Fritz 138
Toffler, Alvin 216
trade, impact of war on 137
transatlantic trade 230–1
Tunzelmann, Nick von 108
Turner, Frederick Jackson 269
UN Conference on the Human Environment 285
underdevelopment 241–2
UNESCO 285
UN Food and Agriculture Organization 285
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 218
United States of America 89, 242
aircraft industry 147
aluminium production 146
biocapacity footprint 249
cardiovascular illness 169
car ownership 157, 162
CO2 emissions 103, 116, 117, 117, 118, 119–21
coal consumption 102, 119–20
deforestation 179
economic growth 243–4
economic power 246–7
Environmental Protection Agency 172
food adulteration 168–9
foreign policy 120–1
hegemony 148, 246–9
horse numbers 110
household debt 150
industrial production 145, 243
mass-consumption society 153–6, 162–5
motorization 114–15
New Deal 162
obesity 169
oil consumption 144, 195
oil reserves 195–6
passive house technologies 111–12
Pax Americana 243–9
productive over-capacity 145
Project Plowshare 131–2
purchasing power 163
railways 108
recycling 158
solar energy 111–12, 113
suburbanization 113–14, 138–9, 164–5
Taft-Hartley Act 163
throw-away culture 159
and war 123
windmills 110
working hours 161
UN-REDD 92–3
UN Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Natural Resources 247–8
urbanization 13, 158, 186, 188, 254
urban transport 114–16
Valéry, Paul 279
Veblen, Thorstein 71, 149, 151
Vernadsky, Vladimir I. 4, 50, 89, 190
Verne, Jules 265
Vietnam War 123, 127–9, 128, 141
Vogt, William 76–7, 285
Volkswagen 146–7
Vries, Jan de 151–2
wages 153
Wallerstein, Immanuel 69, 223–4, 226
war and military technology 122–47
brutalization of nature 129–34, 134
chemical developments 132–7
coal consumption 141–3
deforestation 125–6, 127–9, 128
energy consumption 123–4
frequency 122–3
and globalization 139–41
the Great Acceleration 144–7
and infrastructure projects 138, 139, 140
oil consumption 143, 144
trade impacts 137
waste, change in definition 159
water cycle 8
Watt, James 3, 229
Weisberg, Barry 127
Welzer, Harald 25
White, Gilbert 180
Whiteside, Kerry 41
Williams, John 201–2
Wilson, Charles E. 163
wind energy 109, 110
Wood, Lowell 86
working hours 160–1
World Bank 120–1
world-ecologies 224–5, 235, 237, 242–52
world-systems 69, 223–7, 229–42, 290
World Wildlife Fund 168
Wrigley, E. A. 108, 199–206
Young, Arthur 186
Zalasiewicz, Jan 14, 16
Zarachowich, Weronika 79
Zuckerman, Solly 125
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