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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Novels That Dabble in Environmental Determinism
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:54:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 17:08:50 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:

> Five SF Novels That Dabble in Environmental Determinism
> 
> From the Moon to undersea cities, these SF settings shape societies (and
> drive the plot).
> 
> https://reactormag.com/five-sf-novels-that-dabble-in-environmental-
determinism/

It's fitting that three of the five were published in the 1970s.
That's when the environmental movement took off:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?
content=Environmental+Protection+Agency%2Cenvironmental+&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-
US&smoothing=0
Shortened: https://tinyurl.com/wcf6w4pk

The wide swings parallel, very roughly, Democratic control of
the Senate:

https://web.education.wisc.edu/nwhillman/index.php/2017/02/01/party-
control-in-congress-and-state-legislatures/
Shortened: https://tinyurl.com/mpwkx9k9
(I read it so nobody else has to.)