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26
. “Arctic Rain Threatens Baby Peregrine Falcons,” CBC News, December 4, 2013; Dan Joling, “Low-Profile Ring Seals Are Warming Victims,”
Associated Press, March 5, 2007; Jon Aars, “Variation in Detection Probability of Polar Bear Maternity Dens,”
Polar Biology
36 (2013): 1089–1096.

27
. Schwake et al., “Health of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (
Tursiops truncatus
) in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, Following the
Deepwater Horizon
Oil Spill”; L. Lauria, “Reproductive Disorders and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Female Flight Attendants,”
Aviation,
Space and Environmental Medicine
77 (2006): 533–539.

28
. FOOTNOTE: C.D. Lynch, et. al., “Preconception Stress Increases the Risk of Infertility: Results from a Couple-based Prospective Cohort Study—The LIFE Study,”
Human Reproduction
29 (May 2014), 1067–1075.

29
. Wes Jackson, “We Can Now Solve the 10,000-Year-Old Problem of Agriculture,” in Allan Eaglesham, Ken Korth, and Ralph W. F. Hardy,
eds.,
NABC Report 24: Water Sustainability in Agriculture
, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 2012, p. 41.

30
. Wendell Berry, “It All Turns on Affection,” Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, Washington, D.C., April 23, 2012,
http://www.neh.gov
.

31
. Tyrone B. Hayes et al., “Demasculinization and Feminization of Male Gonads by Atrazine: Consistent Effects Across Vertebrate Classes,”
Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
127 (2011): 65, 67; Karla Gale, “Weed Killer Atrazine May Be Linked to Birth Defect,” Reuters, February 8, 2010; Kelly D. Mattix, Paul D. Winchester, and L. R. “Tres” Scherer, “Incidence of Abdominal Wall Defects Is Related to Surface Water Atrazine and Nitrate Levels,”
Journal of
Pediatric Surgery
42 (2007): 947–949; Tye E. Arbuckle et al.,
“An Exploratory Analysis of the Effect of Pesticide Exposure on the Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in an Ontario Farm Population,”
Environmental Health Perspectives
109 (2001): 851–857; Rachel Aviv, “A Valuable Reputation,”
The New Yorker
, February 10, 2014.

32
. Charles C. Mann,
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
(New York: Vintage, 2006), 226.

33
. “Transforming Agriculture
with Perennial Polycultures,” The Land Institute,
http://landinstitute.org
.

34
. Blair Fannin, “Updated 2011 Texas Agricultural Drought Losses Total $7.62 Billion,”
Agrilife Today
, March 21, 2012.

35
. James A. Lichatowich,
Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis
(Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001), 54.

36
. “Leanne Simpson Speaking at Beit Zatoun Jan 23rd 2012” (video),
YouTube, Dreadedstar’s Channel, January 25, 2012.

37
. Personal interview with Leanne Simpson, February 22, 2013.

38
. John Vidal, “Bolivia Enshrines Natural World’s Rights with Equal Status for Mother Earth,”
Guardian
, April 10, 2011; Clare Kendall, “A New Law of Nature,”
Guardian
, September 23, 2008; FOOTNOTE: Edgardo Lander, “Extractivism and Protest Against It in Latin America,” presented
at the Question of Power: Alternatives for the Energy Sector in Greece and Its European and Global Context, Athens, October 2013; República del Ecuador, Constitución de la República del Ecuador de 2008, Capítulo Séptimo: Derechos de la Naturaleza, art. 71; “Peoples Agreement of Cochabamba,” World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, April 24, 2010,
http://pwccc.wordpress.com
.

39
. Fiona Harvey, “Vivienne Westwood Backs Ecocide Law,”
Guardian
, January 16, 2014; “FAQ Ecocide,” End Ecocide in Europe, April 16, 2013,
https://www.endecocide.eu
.

40
. Personal interview with Mike Scott, March 23, 2013.

41
. Wes Jackson,
Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture
(Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010).

42
. Personal email communication with Gopal
Dayaneni, March 6, 2014.

CONCLUSION: THE LEAP YEARS

1
. Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam,” speech, New York, April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University,
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu
.

2
. Marlene Moses, Statement on Behalf of Pacific Small Island Developing States, presented at Youth Delegates Demand Climate Justice, side event for United
Nations Youth Delegates, New York October 13, 2009.

3
. Personal email communication with Brad Werner, December 22, 2012.

4
. “The Future of Human-Landscape Systems II” (video), American Geophysical Union (AGU), YouTube, December 5, 2012; personal interview with Brad Werner, October 2, 2013; Dave Levitan, “After Extensive Mathematical Modeling, Scientist Declares ‘Earth Is F**ked,’ ” io9, December
7, 2012.

5
. “The Future of Human-Landscape Systems II” (video), YouTube; personal email communication with Brad Werner, December 22, 2012; personal interviews with Brad Werner, February 15 and October 2, 2013.

6
. “The Future of Human-Landscape Systems II” (video), YouTube.

7
. John Fullerton, “The Big Choice,” Capital Institute, July 19, 2011.

8
. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Where Do We Go from
Here: Chaos or Community?
(Boston: Beacon, [1967] 2010), 5–6.

9
. Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Berk özler, “Not Separate, Not Equal: Poverty and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” Working Paper No. 739, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School, January 2005.

10
. For work exploring the multi-faceted parallels between climate change, slavery, and abolitionism more
broadly, see: Jean-François Mouhot, “Past Connections and Present Similarities in Slave
Ownership and Fossil Fuel Usage,”
Climatic Change
105 (2011): 329–355; Jean-François Mouhot,
Des Esclaves Énergétiques: Réflexions sur le Changement Climatique
(Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2011); Andrew Nikiforuk,
The Energy of Slaves
(Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2012); HAYES: Christopher Hayes, “The New Abolitionism,”
The Nation
, April 22, 2014.

11
. Greg Grandin, “The Bleached Bones of the Dead: What the Modern World Owes Slavery (It’s More Than Back Wages),” TomDispatch, February 23, 2014; Adam Hochschild,
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 13–14, 54–55.

12
. Christopher Hayes, “The New Abolitionism,”
The Nation
, April 22, 2014;
FOOTNOTE: Seth Rockman and Sven Beckert, eds.,
Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming); Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, “Partners in Iniquity,”
New York Times
, April 2, 2011; Julia Ott, “Slaves: The Capital That Made Capitalism,” Public Seminar, April 9, 2014; Edward E. Baptist and Louis Hyman, “American
Finance Grew on the Back of Slaves,”
Chicago Sun-Times
, March 7, 2014; Katie Johnston, “The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management,”
Forbes
, January 16, 2013.

13
. Lauren Dubois,
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2012), 97–100.

14
. Frantz Fanon,
The Wretched of the Earth
(New York: Grove, 2004), 55.

15
. Kari Marie Norgaard,
Living in Denial: Climate
Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011), 61.

16
. Adam Smith,
The Wealth of Nations
, Books I–III, ed. Andrew Skinner (London: Penguin, 1999), 183–84, 488–89.

17
. Seymour Drescher,
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 34–35, 233; Thomas Clarkson,
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment
of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament
, Vol. 2 (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808), 580–81.

18
. Wendell Phillips, “Philosophy of the Abolition Movement: Speech Before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society (1853),” in
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
(Boston: James Redpath, 1863), 109–10; Frederick Douglass, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,”
speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852, in
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
, ed. Philip S. Foner and Yuval Taylor (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2000), 196.

19
. David Brion Davis,
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 1.

20
. Desmond Tutu, “We Need an Apartheid-Style Boycott to Save the Planet,”
Guardian
, April 10, 2014.

21
. Luis Hernández Navarro, “Repression and Resistance in Oaxaca,”
CounterPunch
, November 21, 2006.

22
. Personal interview with Sivan Kartha, January 11, 2013.

Aamjiwnaang First Nation,
428
–29

Abbey, Edward,
286

abolition movement,
450
,
455
–57,
462
–63

Aboriginal and Treaty Rights,
368
–72;
see also
Indigenous peoples, land rights of

Acción Ecológica,
309
,
408
–9

acid rain,
204
,
208
,
218

Action Center for Education and Community Development,
106

Adam, Allan,
384

Adams, John,
84

Africa,
12
,
19
,
175
,
179
,
414

effects of Pinatubo Option in,
260
,
268
,
270
,
287

neocolonialism in,
47
,
48
–49

Sahel of,
270
,
274
,
275
–76

volcanic eruptions and,
272
,
274

African Americans,
53
,
415
,
453
–54

toxic dumping in communities of,
205
,
429
–30

African National Congress,
455

agriculture:

agro-ecological methods in,
134
–36,
284
,
438

decentralization of,
133
–34

family farms vs. Big Ag in,
399
–400

industrial (Big Ag),
9
,
77
–78,
133
–36,
210
,
399
–400,
438
–39

local and organic,
134
–35,
222
,
404
–5

low-energy,
90
,
91

natural fertility of ecosystems vs.,
438
–39

small-scale sustainable,
127
,
438

wind turbines and,
131
–32

agrofuel businesses,
238
–39

Agung eruption (1963),
274

air-conditioning,
47

air travel,
1
–2,
3
,
15
,
76
,
90
,
113
,
231
,
238
,
241
–44

Alaska,
112
,
147
,
273
–74,
333
,
337
,
375
,
376
,
420

Alberta:

disappearance of moose
from,
27

Indigenous people in,
315
,
372

Alberta Energy Regulator,
327

Alberta tar sands,
2
,
23
,
27
,
71
,
139
–41,
144
,
145
,
147
,
179
,
237
,
245
–49,
281
,
301
,
312
,
315
,
325
,
331
,
349
,
372
,
381
,
451

ecological and human health impact of,
325
–27,
345

economic boom and,
45
,
67

as economic disrupter,
386

Indigenous lawsuits over,
378
–79,
384

Pierre River Mine project in,
379
–80,
383

possible
fuel bans on,
246
,
248
–49

transport of machinery for,
318
–19

Albrecht, Glenn,
165

Alcoa,
226

Alden, Charlene,
390
–93

Alier, Joan Martínez,
202

Allende, Salvador,
454

Alward, David,
374

Amazon Basin,
180
,
182
,
197
,
221
,
291

anti-oil movement in,
304
,
353
,
376

dieback in,
13

Amazon Watch,
411

American Association for the Advancement of Science,
1
,
31
,
152

American Council on Renewable
Energy,
67

American Dream, supersizing of,
22

American Economic Association,
428

American Electric Power,
196
,
221

American Enterprise Institute (AEI),
282
–83

American Freedom Alliance,
53
n