Industrialized Nature by Paul R. Josephson, Island Press, $25, ISBN 1559637773 Reviewed by Fred Pearce
GUESS what? In the great war of the second half of the 20th century, Russia and America were on the same side. Sure, they stood head to head throughout the cold war, but who remembers that? No, the big war, the lasting war that shaped our world was the war against nature. And they were both on the side of what environmental historian Paul Josephson calls “brute-force technology”.
Together, they paved the planet and plugged the great rivers with “pyramids of concrete”. They turned forests…
