The Forces of Nature

- 1. The Power of Environmental Perceptions
- Introduction
- Summary
- 2. Living on the Edge of the World
- Introduction
- Summary
- 3. Settling the Ancient Ecumene
- Introduction
- Summary
- 4. Geotheology from the Cradle of Civilization
- Introduction
- Geotheology
- Cosmology and Geoeschatology
- Geotheokolasis and Geotheomisthosis
- Sacred Images of Weather and Climate with Inferences for Climate Change
- Summary
- 5. Geokolasis: The Cases of Donora, Lake Erie, and the Dust Bowl
- Introduction
- Asia fills the Production Void
- Deaths in the Fog
- Death and Rebirth of Lake Erie
- Grapes of Draft
- Summary
- 6. Erosion and Dispossession: The Legacy of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1939
- Introduction
- Framing a Perspective on Life in the Cumberland Gap Area
- Tennessee Valley Authority and Norris Dam
- Life of the Nondispossessed
- Lingering Legacy of TVA in the Cumberland Gap Area
- Summary
- 7. Life and Death in Hurricane Alley
- Introduction
- Geography of Hurricanes
- The Galveston Hurricane of September 8, 1900
- Summary
- 8. Life and Death in America's Tornado Alleys
- Introduction
- Predicting Tornadoes
- Classifying Tornadoes
- Geography of Tornadoes
- The Tri-State Tornado of March 1925
- Mossy Grove and the Outbreak of November 11, 2002
- Summary
- 9. Life and Death in Quake Zones
- Introduction
- Predicting the Next Big One
- Measuring Quakes
- New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812
- Summary
- 10. Challenges of Climate Change
- Introduction
- When Human Ecology Approaches Geotheology
- Stigmatization of Carbon
- The Imprecision of Predicting Global Warming and Climate Change
- The Historicity of Climate Change
- Summary
- 11. The East's Human Tsunami
- Introduction
- Demographic Adaptations in Midlatitude Coastal Areas
- Ecological Forces behind International Migrations
- Carrying Capacity in the Near and Middle East and Southern Asia
- The East's Expanded Carrying Capacity and the Declining Pull of the West
- Living in the Eastern Hazard Zone
- Summary
- 12. The Americas in 2060
- Introduction
- Lands of Contrasting Environmental Features
- Population Change in the Americas
- The Fatal Attraction of North America
- The Need for Development in the Americas
- Summary
- Notes
- Bibliography