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hungeobull-6025	Proto, Matteo	Barnett, L.: After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe	2021	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1471	39	28	Moreover, Barnett identifies a connection between early modern concerns about catastrophic floods and global climate issues and present-day reflections on the Anthropocene and climate change: “premodern histories of the planet and people centred on the biblical story of Noah’s Flood were premised on several ideas that fell out of fashion in the 19th century but have rightly returned to view in recent decades: the idea that human history must be written in reference to nature’s history; that the earth’s future should be of equal concern as its past; and that multidisciplinary collaboration is nec- essary in order to reconstruct the past, understand the present, and discern the future of the human species and the global environment” (p. 18). Of course, Barnett recognises the important dif- ferences between early modern perceptions of hu- man/nature interactions and contemporary debates on climate change and environmental degradation connected with anthropic transformation.	cache/hungeobull-6025.pdf	txt/hungeobull-6025.txt