After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern EuropeHow the story of Noah's Flood was central to the development of a global environmental consciousness in early modern Europe. Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize by the Journal of the History of Ideas, Short listed for the Kenshur Prize by the Center for Eighteenth Century Studies, Indiana University Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a