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SUMMARY:"Fallacies of misplaced concreteness"? The use of History in post-
 war environmental arguments - Paul Warde (Pembroke College\, Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr AM Price
DESCRIPTION:‘The environment’\, as it emerged in the post-war years\, 
 was a fundamentally future-orientated concept\, stimulating arguments abou
 t the trajectory that societies were on. As such\, environmental arguments
  also became historical\, drawing out ideas of how and when environmental 
 problems emerged. Most canonical environmental texts of the period from th
 e 1940s to the 1980s contain historical arguments. This paper examines tho
 se uses of History\, arguing that the facts selected and narratives develo
 ped largely related to the kind of values authors wanted to espouse\, rath
 er than other criteria. This led to the histories of environmental degrada
 tion assembled often being very different. The paper addresses a range of 
 environmental thinkers from the late 1940s to 1980s\,as well as some of th
 eir more strident and influential opponents.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3\, Cripps Court\, Magdalene College
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