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	Can History Help Us with Global Warming? J.R. McNeill Georgetown University I. Introduction II. Buffers, Resilience and Nature’s Shocks III. Societal and Political Reverberations IV. A Glance at the History of Technological and Social Change V. Conclusion About the author John McNeill is Professor in the History Department at Georgetown University in the US. He is a world-renowned environmental historian and is best known as author of Something New Under the Sun (2000) a multi award-winning environmental history of the 20th Century. He has submitted this article to Climatechange.ie as a guest expert contributor.
	Date posted: 03/12/07

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