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D. Meadows’ Limits to Growth (1972) sounded an alarm. Preservation of environment is today a major task for mankind. Mastering environmental problems is an urgent one in the present age. There is an old adage: present concerns throw back a shadow into the past; so they are considered in the mirror of history and initiate inquiry into the roots of topical problems. The consciousness of history becomes enlarged by new material. The consequence is: environmental problems initiate the development of environmental history.
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Blaschke, K. (1990). Environmental History: Some Questions for a New Subdiscipline of History. In: Brimblecombe, P., Pfister, C. (eds) The Silent COUNTDOWN. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75159-2_6
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