Book Notes

Paul R. Josephson ’75 published his newest book, Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World in November 2002. This new book shows how science, engineering, policy, finance, and hubris have come together, often with unforeseen consequences, to perpetuate what he calls “brute force technologies” - large-scale systems created to exploit water, forest, and fish resources. The book vividly demonstrates how irresponsible - or well-intentioned but misguided - large-scale manipulation of nature has resulted, time after time, in resource loss, social disruption, more brute force politics, and severe environmental degradation. Both a cautionary tale and a call to action, Industrialized Nature urges us to consider how to avoid the pitfalls of brute force technologies, and begin to develop a better future for ourselves and our children.

Paul is associate professor of history at Colby College. He is the author of Red Atom: Russia’s Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today (1999), Totalitarian Science and Technology (1996), and the award-winning New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science (1997).

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