The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness

• Main Author: Goossen, Benjamin W.
• Other Authors: Johnson, Alison, Armitage, David, Chaplin, Joyce, Miller, Ian J., Oreskes, Naomi
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Climate Change; Cold War; Decolonization; Environment; History of Science; Outer Space; History; Environmental studies; Antarctic; Sputnik; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37368436

Collective human knowledge about Earth as an environmental system has expanded since the Second World War in tandem with a rapid acceleration of human interventions in the natural world. Present-day environmentalists call for increased investment in environmental science and for the adoption of an E...