Climate Delusion: Hurricane Sandy, Sea Level Rise, and 1840s Catastrophism
The existential global threat of inundation of the world’s low-lying port cities necessitates a radical shift in the dominant climate framework of sustainability and resilience to include catastrophism. Scientists and social scientists of the industrial crisis decade of the 1840s, arguably...
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| description | The existential global threat of inundation of the world’s low-lying port cities necessitates a radical shift in the dominant climate framework of sustainability and resilience to include catastrophism. Scientists and social scientists of the industrial crisis decade of the 1840s, arguably the Anthropocene’s historical origin, offer a model for theorizing twenty-first century catastrophe in both geophysical and social terms, as in the case study of Hurricane Sandy presented here. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-304bc6c728b640879523b5858a80d90a2022-12-21T19:38:29ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872019-08-018313110.3390/h8030131h8030131Climate Delusion: Hurricane Sandy, Sea Level Rise, and 1840s CatastrophismGillen D’Arcy Wood0Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USAThe existential global threat of inundation of the world’s low-lying port cities necessitates a radical shift in the dominant climate framework of sustainability and resilience to include catastrophism. Scientists and social scientists of the industrial crisis decade of the 1840s, arguably the Anthropocene’s historical origin, offer a model for theorizing twenty-first century catastrophe in both geophysical and social terms, as in the case study of Hurricane Sandy presented here.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/3/131climate changecatastrophismsea level riseHurricane Sandythe 1840sthe AnthropoceneFriederich EngelsJoseph Adhémar |
| spellingShingle | Gillen D’Arcy Wood Climate Delusion: Hurricane Sandy, Sea Level Rise, and 1840s Catastrophism Humanities climate change catastrophism sea level rise Hurricane Sandy the 1840s the Anthropocene Friederich Engels Joseph Adhémar |
| title | Climate Delusion: Hurricane Sandy, Sea Level Rise, and 1840s Catastrophism |
| title_full | Climate Delusion: Hurricane Sandy, Sea Level Rise, and 1840s Catastrophism |
| title_fullStr | Climate Delusion: Hurricane Sandy, Sea Level Rise, and 1840s Catastrophism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate Delusion: Hurricane Sandy, Sea Level Rise, and 1840s Catastrophism |
| title_short | Climate Delusion: Hurricane Sandy, Sea Level Rise, and 1840s Catastrophism |
| title_sort | climate delusion hurricane sandy sea level rise and 1840s catastrophism |
| topic | climate change catastrophism sea level rise Hurricane Sandy the 1840s the Anthropocene Friederich Engels Joseph Adhémar |
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