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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262363099
How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity. Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: Americans invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists believe that the biblical flood carved landscapes less than ten thousand years ago; environmentalists protest pipelines; western states argue that the federal government's land policies throttle free enterprise; Native Americans demand protection for sacred sites. In this book, David Nye looks at Americans' irreconcilable ideas about nature. A landscape is conflicted when different groups have different uses for the same location—for example, when some want to open mining sites that others want to preserve or when suburban development impinges on agriculture. Some landscapes are so degraded from careless use that they become toxic “anti-landscapes.” Nye traces these conflicts to clashing conceptions of nature—ranging from pastoral to Native American to military–industrial—that cannot be averaged into a compromise. Nye argues that today's environmental crisis is rooted in these conflicting ideas about land. Depending on your politics, global warming is either an inconvenient truth or fake news. America's contradictory conceptions of nature are at the heart of a broken national consensus.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 April 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12159.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262363099
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 January 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12248.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262356671
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 January 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12248.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262356671
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 January 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12248.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262356671
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 January 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12248.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262356671