Michael Rawson is professor of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston, which was the recipient of numerous awards and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
“Rawson illustrates brilliantly how discussions of climate change are wedded to past visions of unlimited growth in which scarcity (peak soil, peak population, peak coal, peak oil) would be only a temporary obstacle to overcome.”—Kate Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “This book does something that is worth doing and that no other scholarly book I know of comes close to doing: tracing the history of imagined environmental futures in the Western world.”—William Meyer, Colgate University