Evaggelos Vallianatos
Historian, eco-political theorist, and strategist
Evaggelos G. Vallianatos, Ph.D., is a historian, eco-political theorist, and strategist. He studied zoology and Greek history at the University of Illinois, earned his Ph.D. in European and Greek history at the University of Wisconsin, did postdoctoral studies in the history of science at Harvard, worked on Capitol Hill and the US Environmental Protection Agency, taught at several universities and authored hundreds of articles and several books, including Earth on Fire: Brewing Plagues and Climate Chaos in Our Backyards (World Scientific, 2026).
Articles Authored
Climate Chaos: Planetary Dangers and Humanitarian Emergency
Prologue Human activities such as deforestation, forest fires, mining, industrialized agriculture, the burning of fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas, coal), and wars have been threatening nature, civilization, and humans. Those threats weaponize the planet’s temperature. Scientists describe that effect as climate change/climate chaos. Climate change/chaos is global and anthropogenic/artificial. It has been affecting the lives…