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acid rain, 151
African Americans, 60, 61, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 142
agriculture, 3, 13, 14, 44, 141
greenhouse effect and, 150
large-scale, 15
sustainable, 145
airplanes, 45, 85, 149
air pollution, x, 47, 99, 101, 129
Alaska Natives, 141–42
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’, 27
American Progress (Gast), 56–57
Anaxagoras, 116
Anaximenes, 114–15
Androcene, 60, 87
Angus, Ian, 19
Annals of Physics, 36
Antarctic, xii, 11, 25
Anthropocene, 17–18, 45
advent of, 26–27
Capitalocene vs., 21–24
climate justice linked to, 143
debated meaning of, 13–14
environmental ethics and, 127–35
environmental humanities in, x–xi, xii
fossil fuels linked to, x, 14, 24–25, 27, 113–14
fundamental dilemma of, 112
initial conception of, x, 1–2, 14, 26
labor in, 59–61
in non-Western world, 25
philosophical questions in, 114–19
prospects for, xii, 144–56
steam engine linked to, x, 2, 26, 152
“Anthropocene Blues” (Waldman), 86
Anthropocene Fictions (Trexler), 86
Anthropocene or Capitalocene? (Moore), 21–22
appropriate technology, 153
Arctic, xii, 9, 11, 25, 141
Arctic Native peoples, 141
Aristophanes, 109
Aristotle, 112, 113, 119
Arrhenius, Svante, 6, 7
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (Lumière brothers), 52
Arrival of the Normandy Train (Monet), 51–52
art, 46–65
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), 86–87
atomist philosophy, 116, 119, 121
Australia, 10, 148
automobiles, 12–13, 45, 84–85
electric and self-driving, 62, 85
aviation, 45, 85, 149
Babbage, Charles, 120
Baha’i faith, 92
barley, 3
Bartholomew, Greg, 79
Bateson, Gregory, 154
beans, 3, 14
Benedict XVI, Pope, 95, 96
Bennett, Jane, 87–88
Bentham, Jeremy, 129
Berndt, Brooks, 104–5
biodiversity, 15, 130, 146
biofuels, 85–86, 149
bioregionalism, 130, 145, 154
Black, Joseph, 27
black holes, ix
Black Metropolis (Bullard), 138–39
Blackstone Canal, 53
Bohm, David, 155
Bohr, Niels, 121
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 42, 43
Bookchin, Murray, 154
Botkin, Daniel, 124
Boulton, Matthew, 30
Bouzid, Ahmed, 105
Boyle, Robert, 91, 126
Bradford, William, 56
Brondmo, Hans Peter, 107
Brown, Jerry, 11
Brown, Joan, 104
Bruntland, Gro Harlem, 145
Buckland, David, 64
Buddhism, 92, 98
Bullard, Robert, 138–39
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 14
“butterfly effect,” 122
calculus, 119, 123
California, 10
Callicott, J. Baird, 130
caloric theory, 34, 35, 39
canals, 52–53
Cape Farewell Project, 63–64
capitalism, 13, 18, 19–24, 26, 44, 146, 150, 156
Capitalocene, 16, 19–24, 150
carbon, 132
capture of, 11, 12, 149–50
carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions: increasing levels of, 3, 4, 5, 27, 45, 150
misconceptions surrounding, 7
policies and methods to reduce, 6, 11–12
in rich vs. poor countries, 20
Caring for Creation, 105
Carnot, Hippolyte, 31
Carnot, Lazare, 31
Carnot, Sadi, 31–32, 35, 36, 42
Carnot cycle, 33, 35
Castillo, Aurora, 136
Catholicism, 95–96
The Celestial Railroad (Hawthorne), 72–74
cement industry, 149
Center for Earth Ethics, 95
Center for the Study of World Religions, 93
Central Pacific Railroad, 55
CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), 133–34, 151
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 16–18
chaos, 107, 123, 124, 125, 145, 155
Chaos (Gleick), 124
Characterising the Anthropocene (Macilenti), 88
chemical industry, 136, 151
China, 85, 99–100
Christianity, 91–92, 103, 105
Chthulocene, 15
The Circle of Reason (Ghosh), 84
Clack, Christopher, 148–49
Clapeyron, Benoît Paul Émile, 31, 33–35, 36, 42
Clausius, Rudolf, 31, 35–37, 42
climate change, 14
art and, 46–65
global warming effects of, ix–x, xii, 4, 5, 12–13, 27, 45, 130, 149, 150
history of, 6–9
humanities and, 9–10
human understanding of, 18
literature and, 66–89
marginalized peoples affected by, 19, 105, 127, 140, 143
philosophy and, 107–26
politics and, 10–13
population growth linked to, 4
public opinion and, 12–13
religion and, 90–106
scientific consensus on, 1, 11
“Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action,” 93
climate justice, 95, 131
environmental justice and, 139–40
“The Climate of History” (Chakrabarty), 16–17
closed systems, 37, 40, 45, 123, 171n9
coal, 24, 28, 33, 34, 58, 66
acid rain linked to 151
extraction of, 29, 30, 47, 57, 101
in literature, 67, 71, 83–84
substitutes for, 147, 148
wood supplanted by, 18
“Coal Train” (McPhee), 83
Cobb, John, 101, 103
colonialism, 22, 24, 91–92
The Columbian Exchange (Crosby), 14
complexity, 107, 124, 145, 155, 156
Complexity (Waldrop), 124
computers, 119–20, 125
Confronting Environmental Racism (Bullard), 138
“Confronting the Climate Change Crisis” (Angus), 19–20
Confucianism, 98–100, 101
Confucius, 99, 100
Copernican (heliocentric) universe, 44
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 91, 119
coral reefs, 11
corn, 3, 14
corporations, 24, 46
cows, 3, 14
Crew Company, 69
Cronon, William, 53
Crosby, Alfred, 14
Crutzen, Paul, x, 1–3, 13, 14, 16, 26, 149
dams, 4, 5
Daoism, 98
Davis, Scott, 83
deep ecology, 154–55
deforestation, 105, 150
Democritus of Abdera, 116, 117
desalination, 63
Descartes, René, 91, 116, 126
desertification, xiii
developing world, xiii, 87, 97, 132, 140, 143, 152
dialectics, 24, 115
Diamond, Jared, 14
Dickens, Charles, 66, 69–72
Dickinson, Emily, 79–80
Diderot, Denis, 27
diesel engine, 45
Dillard, Annie, 66, 81–82
dinosaurs, 17
Discordant Harmonies (Botkin), 124
Discourse on Inequality (Rousseau), 27
distributive justice, 140
Dombey and Son (Dickens), 69–70
domestication, 3, 14
Dow Chemical Company, 136
drought, xiii, 8, 11
Dumping in Dixie (Bullard), 138
Earth Charter (2000), 10, 105–6
Earth Ministry, 95
earthquakes, 70, 107, 121
ecocentricity, 127, 129–30
ecofeminism, 16, 87–88
Ecology and Religion (Tucker and Grim), 94
“ecology of mind,” 154
egocentricity, 127–28, 139
Einstein, Albert, 121–22
electrical grid, 147, 149
electric cars, 62, 85
Eliasson, Olafur, 63, 64
Elvin, Mark, 99
“The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology” (Tucker), 94
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 66, 75
Empedocles of Akragas, 116, 117
Encyclopédie (Diderot and Alembert), 27
endangered species, 66
The End of Nature (McKibben), 9
Engels, Friedrich, 115
Enlightenment, 26, 45
entropy, ix, 37–38, 40–42, 45
environmental history, 17
environmental humanities, x–xi, xii, 10, 144
environmental justice (EJ), 85, 130–31, 135–36, 137
climate justice and, 139–40
Environmental Justice Resource Center, 138
environmental movements, 65
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 4
“Environmental Turn in the Human Sciences” (Sörlin), x
Envisioning Change (exhibition), 64
Episcopalianism, 92–93
epistemology, 114
Erie Canal, 53
ethics, 95, 99, 106, 111, 114, 126–43, 154
European Union, 148
Evangelical Climate Initiative, 93
evolution, ix, 44
“The Excursion” (Wordsworth), 67–68
extinction, xiii, 105, 130, 141
increasing rate of, 4, 5
extreme weather, ix, 158n12
Facing the Anthropocene (Angus), 20
factory farming, 15
Faith in Place, 95
farmlands, 4
feedback effects, 11, 44
Feminist Ecologies (Varney), 88
feudalism, 44
Fighting Temeraire Being Tugged to Her Last Berth (Turner), 49, 50
First Nature, 9
fishing, 150
Fitzpatrick, Paul, 83
Flight Behavior (Kingsolver), 86
Flint, Michigan, 137
flooding, ix, 8, 11, 140
food: cost of, 142
shortages of, 8, 152
forests, 4
for carbon dioxide reduction, 11, 12
destruction of, 105, 150
in Latin America, 96
Forum on Religion and Ecology, 93
fossil fuels, 18
Anthropocene linked to, x, 14, 24–25, 27, 113–14
capitalist profit from, 24, 128
coal, see coal
depletion of, 3
divestment policies and, 104
extraction of, 47, 84
formation of, 117
gas, 24, 47
greenhouse gases from, ix, 2, 4, 11, 24–25, 27, 45, 114, 125, 149, 150
importation of, 99
on Native American reservations, 97
oil, 11, 24, 47
in steam engines, 2, 59
substitutes for, 62, 63, 90, 101, 103, 143, 145, 147
for transportation, 85
widespread use of, 134
Francis, Pope, 96
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 91, 96
Friends, Society of, 92
From Being to Becoming (Prigogine), 123
Frost, Robert, 66, 80
fuel efficiency, 12–13
Gaia, 155
Galileo Galilei, 91, 126
garbage, 99, 137
Gardiner, Stephen M., 133–35
gas, 24, 47
Gast, John, 56–57
gathering-hunting, 44
gender, 87–89
geocentric (Ptolemaic) universe, 44
geothermal energy, 147
Germany, 148
Ghosh, Amitav, 84
Glacier National Park, 65
glaciers, xii, 65, 97–98, 125
Gleick, James, 124
The Global Fight for Climate Justice (Angus), 20
global governance, 135
globalization, 17–18, 97
global warming. See climate change: global warming effects of
Global Warming Solutions Act (California, 2006), 10
goats, 3, 14
Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger, 107, 109
Google, 107, 108, 110, 112, 148
Gore, Al, 12
grasslands, 4
“great acceleration,” 13, 14
The Great Derangement (Ghosh), 84
Great Lakes to Ohio and Mississippi Canal, 53
Greek Orthodoxy, 92
GreenFaith, 93, 95
greenhouse gases (GHG), xii, 62, 89, 90, 114, 115, 145, 150–51
climate change skeptics and, 12
early warnings of, 6
historical rise in, 2–3, 14, 24–25, 27, 47, 84–85, 128
projected levels of, 4, 6
reductions sought in, 8–9, 10, 93, 112, 119, 129
scientific consensus on, 7
from transportation, 85–86
unpredictable effects of, 125
worldwide distribution of, 23. See also carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions; hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); methane (CH4); nitrous oxide (N2O); perfluorocarbons (PFCs); sulfur hexafluorides (SF6)
Green parties, 152
“green” science, xi
Griffin, David Ray, 101, 103
Grim, John, 93–94
groundwater, 151
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), 14
Gynocene, 15–16, 87
habitat loss, 130, 141, 143, 151
Haraway, Donna, 15, 16
Hard Times (Dickens), 70–72
Hartshorne, Charles, 101
Hass, Robert, 66
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 66, 72–74
Hayhoe, Katherine, 105
Healing Our Planet Earth (HOPE) conference, 93
health insurance, 142
heat death, ix, 40–41
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 115
Heisenberg, Werner, 121–22
heliocentric (Copernican) universe, 44
Heraclitus of Ephesus, 115–16, 117, 119, 120, 125
Hinduism, 98
Hobbes, Thomas, 116, 128
Holocene (interglacial warm period), 3
homocentricity, 127, 128–29, 139
Homogenocene, 15
Honor the Earth, 97
Horkheimer, Max, 153
horses, 3, 14, 46
humanities, x–xi, xii, 10, 144
humanity, 127, 144–56
Hume, David, 27
hurricanes, ix, 142
hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), 7
ice age, 13
icecaps, ix, xii, 150
“ice car” (Eliasson), 63, 64
identity, law of, 116
immigration, 24
An Inconvenient Truth (film), 12
India: Buddhism and Hinduism in, 98
pollution in, 99
indigenous peoples, 20, 97–98, 104, 105, 127, 135, 140–43
indigenous religions, 92, 94
industrialization, 18, 24, 45, 56–57, 79
inequality, 19, 20, 23, 140, 142
integrative thinking, 154
Interfaith Faith Center on Corporate Responsibility, 93
Interfaith Power and Light Campaign, 104
interglacial warm period (Holocene), 3
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 8–9, 12, 132
internal combustion engine, 45
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), 7–8, 20
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, 95
Inuit, 141
Islam, 92, 103, 105
Jackson, Candida Dereck, 104
Jacobson, Mark, 146–47, 149
Jamestown, Va., 15
Jantsch, Erich, 152
Japan, 99
Joule, James Prescott, 39, 42
Judaism, 92, 103
justice. See climate justice; environmental justice; procedural justice
Kane, John, 57–59
Kant, Immanuel, 27
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 38–40, 42
Kendall-Miller, Heather, 141
Kepler, Johannes, 91, 119
Keystone pipeline, 97
Khosrowshahi, Dara, 125
Kingsolver, Barbara, 66, 86
Klein, Naomi, 19
Kyoto Protocol, 8, 10
LaDuke, Winona, 97
“The Land Ethic” (Leopold), 129–30
land use, 5, 137
Lao Tzu, 99–100
latent heat, 27
Latin America, 96, 104
Latinos, 138, 140, 142
Lavoisier, Antoine, 27
lead poisoning, 137
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 77
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 119, 120, 162n16
Leiserowitz, Anthony, 12
Leopold, Aldo, 66, 129–30
Leopold, Estella, 66
“The Literature of the Anthropocene” (journal issue), 86–87
Lo, Erin, 85
Locke, John, 128
logic, 116, 117
Lomborg, Bjørn, 12
London and Birmingham railroad, 48
Lorenz, Edward, 122
Los Angeles City Energy Recovery Project (LANCER), 136
Lovelock, James, 155
Lumière, Auguste, 52
Lumière, Louis, 52
The Machine in the Garden (Marx), 74–75
Macilenti, Alesandro, 88
Major, Alice, 88
Malthusianism, 20, 152
mammals, 13, 14
Manchester-Liverpool railway, 47
Manet, Édouard, 51
Mann, Charles, 15
A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers (Rankine), 42
Marduk (Mesopotamian god), 114
Markoff, John, 107
Marx, Karl, 115
Marx, Leo, 74–75
materialist philosophy, 116
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Newton), 91
mathematics, 116, 118–21, 124–25
McDaniel, Jay, 103
McGurty, Eileen, 135–36
McKibben, Bill, 9
McNeill, John, 14
McPhee, John, 66, 83–84
meat, 15
mechanics, 119
mechanism, 102, 119–25, 145, 153, 155
MELA (Mothers of East Los Angeles), 136
Melrose, Andrew, 53
“Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat” (Clapeyron), 33–35
Mendoza, Eric, 35
methane (CH4), 3, 7
Mexico, 148
Middlesex Canal, 53
Middletown Woolen Manufacturing Company, 52
Milesians, 114–15
milk, 15
Mill, John Stuart, 129
mining, 24, 29, 30, 47, 57, 84, 101
modernity, 17
Monet, Claude, 51
mono-cropping, 15
Monongahela Valley (Kane), 57–59
Monsanto, 86
Moore, Jason W., 21
morals, 99, 101, 131, 135, 146
Morocco, 105
Morrison, Alex, 64
Muir, John, 75
multiculturalism, 127, 130
Naess, Arne, 154
narrative, 26, 46, 56, 57, 76, 92
National Council of Churches, 93
National Indigenous Alliance, 104
Native American Rights Fund, 141
Native Americans, 97, 138, 140, 141–42
native peoples, 20, 97–98, 104, 105, 127, 135, 140–43
“naturalist” philosophy, 114
Newcomen, Thomas, 28–29
Newton, Isaac, 26, 91, 116, 119, 120, 152
nitrous oxide (N2O), 7, 149
Nordhaus, Ted, 12
North River Sewage Treatment Plant, 137
nuclear age, 13, 14
nuclear energy, 149, 150
oats, 3
Obama, Barack, 86
Obama, Michelle, 86
oceans: acidification of, 11, 105
Japanese pollution of, 99, 151
rising level of, xii, 23
warming of, xiii
oil, 11, 24, 47
“On a Modified Form of the Second Fundamental Theorem in the Mechanical Theory of Heat” (Clausius), 37
“On Changes of Temperature Produced by the Rarefaction and Condensation of Air” (Joule), 39
“On the Dynamical Theory of Heat” (Kelvin), 38–39
“On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground” (Arrhenius), 6
“On the Mechanical Theory of Heat” (Clausius), 37
“On the Motive Force of Heat, and on the Laws Which Can Be Deduced from It for the Theory of Heat” (Clausius), 36
“On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway” (Wordsworth), 68–69
“On the Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy” (Kelvin), 40
ontology, 114, 118
open systems, 44, 45, 123, 171n9
Order Out of Chaos (Prigogine and Stengers), 123
Our Common Future (Bruntland Report), 145
ozone layer, 133–34, 151
paganism, 91
Papin, Denis, 28
Paris Climate Accord (2016), 96
parks movement, 65
Parmenides of Elea, 116, 117, 125
partnership ethic, 127, 131, 146
Pascal, Blaise, 119
“A Passing Glimpse” (Frost), 80–81
Patel, Prachi, 85
Patriarchalocene, 15–16, 60, 87
PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), 135–36
“A Perfect Moral Storm” (Gardner), 133–34
perfluorocarbons (PFCs), 7
perspectivist animism, 21
Phallocene, 87
Philosophical Magazine, 39
photoelectric effect, 121–22
photons, 121–22
photosynthesis, 150
pigs, 3, 14
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Dillard), 81–82
plagues, 107, 121
Planck, Max, 121
planets, 117–18
Plantationocene, 15
plastics, 151
Plato, 107, 109, 111–12, 113, 118, 120, 125
Plato at the Googleplex (Goldstein), 107, 109, 111–12
Plotinus, 124, 125
Poetry and the Anthropocene (Solnick), 86
Poggendorff’s Annals of Physics, 36
polar ice, ix, xii, 150
pollution, 150
of air, x, 47, 99, 101, 129
of soil, 101, 151
of water, x, 99, 101, 137
Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace, 95
population growth, 3–4, 20, 152, 153
poverty, 19, 24, 132, 145
predictability, 107, 119–25, 152
Prigogine, Ilya, 42, 44, 123, 152
Principia Mathematica (Newton), 26–27, 119
procedural justice, 143
process, 24, 156
process philosophy, 101–2
process theology, 101, 102
“Process Philosophy and Global Climate Change” (McDaniel), 103
Ptolemaic (geocentric) universe, 44
Pythagoras of Samos, 117–18
quantification, 117–18
“Radical Guide to the Anthropocene” (Klein), 19
radioactivity, 150
railroads, 47–53, 55, 59–61, 68–84
The Railroad Station in Sceaux (Manet), 51
“The Railway Train” (Dickinson), 79–80
Rain, Steam, and Speed (Turner), 49, 51
rain forests, 150
Rankine, William, 38, 41–42
Raphael, 113
recycling, 145, 153
Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (Carnot), 32–33
refrigerants, 151
relativity, 122
religion: climate change remediation and, 104–6
Eastern, 98–103
ecology and, 92–98
Religion, Nature, and Culture (journal), 95
renewable energy, 11, 62, 90, 101, 106, 119, 143, 147, 150, 153
in developing world, 97
Eastern religions and, 98
numerical goals for, 13, 148
organized support for, 93
Republic (Plato), 111
resource depletion, 101, 150
restoration, 145, 155
rice, 3, 14
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (Snyder), 81
rock formation, 11
Roman Catholicism, 95–96
Roughing It (Twain), 77
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 27
Roybal, Maria, 136
Ruddiman, William, 19
Ruether, Rosemary Radford, 96–97
rye, 14
The Sand County Almanac (Leopold), 130
Santa Fe Institute, 124
Savery, Thomas, 28
Savi, Melina Pereira, 87, 88
Schori, Katharine Jefferts, 92–93
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 10–11
Scientific Revolution, 24, 26, 47, 92, 119, 152
sea level rise, xii, 23
Second Nature, 9
self-driving cars, 62, 85
shamanism, 21
sheep, 3, 14
Shellenberger, Michael, 12
Singer, Peter, 132–33
slave labor, 15, 24, 59
Slavocene, 60
Smith, Adam, 27
snowmelt, xii, 23
Snyder, Gary, 66, 91
The Social Contract (Rousseau), 27
social ecology, 154
Socrates, 109
soil: depletion of, 87, pollution of, 101, 151
solar energy, 62–63, 97, 101, 105, 146–48
Solnick, Sam, 86
Solutions Project, 147
sorghum, 3
Sörlin, Sverker, x
Spangenberg, Joachim, 99
species migration, xiii, 130
spirituality. See religion
squash, 3, 14
stable systems, 123
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, 97
steamboats, 2, 30, 45, 46, 47, 53, 54, 67–68
“Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways” (Wordsworth), 68
steam engine, 22, 123
Anthropocene initiated by, x, 2, 26, 152
capitalism and urbanization linked to, 24, 46, 52
early versions of, 28, 32
ecological revolution linked to, 46–47
efficiency of, 32, 44
heat source of, 33, 34
iconography of, 49–61
second law of thermodynamics and, 37–38, 45
in textile industry, 48–49
Watt’s, x, 2, 26, 27, 30, 31, 42, 45
Steffen, Paul, 14
Steinbeck, John, 66
Stengers, Isabelle, 123
Stephenson, George, 47
Stevens, Lara, 88
Stockton and Darlington Railway, 47
Stoermer, Eugene, x, 1–3, 13, 16, 26
“The Stone Garden” (Snyder), 81
Stott Park Mill, 49
Styrofoam, 151
sulfur hexafluorides (SF6), 7
sustainability, xii, 62, 99, 101, 106, 126, 131, 143, 144–56
SUVs (sport utility vehicles), 13
Taoism, 98–100
Tao Te Ching (The Way; Lao Tzu), 99–100
Tate, Peta, 88
technology, 9, 23, 24, 74, 76, 80, 114, 119, 125
telegraphy, 56–57
textile industry, 48–49, 53
Thales of Miletus, 114
thermodynamics, 24
classical, 42, 123
far-from-equilibrium, 42, 44, 45, 123
as field of science, 38–42
first law of, 35
second law of, ix, 31, 35, 36–38, 40, 44–45
This Changes Everything (Klein), 19
Thoreau, Henry David, 66, 75–76
“To a Locomotive in Winter” (Whitman), 77, 79
tornadoes, ix
toxic waste, 138, 142, 151
“Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States” (report), 138
Transforming Environmentalism (McGurty), 135–36
Trexler, Adam, 86
Trump, Donald J., 96
tsunamis, 107, 121
Tucker, Mary Evelyn, 90, 93–94
Turner, Joseph, 49, 50
Twain, Mark, 77
“Two Rivulets” (Whitman), 77
Tycho Brahe, 119
uncertainty principle, 122
Uncovering the World That Columbus Created (Mann), 15
Union Pacific Railroad, 55
Unitarianism, 92
United Church of Christ, 138
United Nations, 10–11
Environmental Programme of, 8
University of Glasgow, 29, 38
unpredictability, 107, 119, 121–23, 125, 145
urbanization, 24, 46, 52, 65
utilitarianism, 129, 139
Varney, Denise, 88
vegetables, 15
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 20–21
volcanoes, 107, 121
Voltaire, 27
Walden (Thoreau), 75–76
Waldman, Anne, 86
Waldrop, Mitchell, 124
water: cultural and spiritual uses of, 142
desalination of, 63
pollution of, x, 99, 101, 137
supply of, xiii, 63, 141, 151
watermills, 28
Watt, James, x, 2, 26, 27, 29–30, 42, 45
The Wealth of Nations (Smith), 27
Welcome to the Anthropocene (Major), 88
West-Running Brook (Frost), 80
Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way (Melrose), 53, 55
wetlands, 4
wheat, 3, 14
White, Lynn, Jr., 91
Whitehead, Alfred North, 101
Whitman, Walt, 66, 77–78
wilderness, 53, 65, 66, 76
wind energy, 28, 97, 101, 146–48
women, 127, 131, 146
in developing world, xiii, 87
male domination of, 16, 155
as railroad workers, 60, 61
sustainable livelihood and, 145
Wordsworth, William, 66, 67–69
“The Young American” (Emerson), 75
Your Mobile Expectations (“ice car”; Eliasson), 63, 64
Zen Buddhism, 98