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Bob Johnson is author of Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture (UP Kansas, 2014) and Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019). He is a Professor of History who has written widely on American culture, theory, and the environment with his work centered on the double helix of global warming and social justice. His current book project, “The Colonial Climate: How We Made (and Un-Made) the World’s Most Perfect Climate in San Diego, California, 1846–,” reconsiders the Southern California climate through the lens of actor-network theory in an effort re-position climate change as a product of colonial relations. He lives with his family in San Diego, California, home to the highest concentration of urban military assets in the world and what local marketers call “America’s Finest City.”