Controversy over the role of human activity in causing Climate Change is pervasive in contemporary society.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many Early Americans believed that human activity and population growth were essential to moderating.
Indeed, they began as Early as the settlement of English colonists in North America, well before the age of industrialization.
But, as Anya Zilberstein shows in this work, debates about the politics and science of Climate are nothing new.
Controversy over the role of human activity in causing Climate Change is pervasive in contemporary society