Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American LifeBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M05 30 - 237 pages Americans during the twentieth-century became more disconnected from the environment and nature than ever before. More Americans lived in cities rather than on farms; they became ever more reliant on technology to interact with the world around them and with each other. Perhaps paradoxically, the twentieth-century also became the period in which environmental issues played an ever-increasing role in politics and public policy. Why is this so? Perhaps because, despite what many people believe, nature and the environment remains central to everyone's daily life. Pollution, environmental degradation, urban sprawl, loss of wildlife and biodiversity - all of these issues directly impact how everyone - even city dwellers - live their lives. |
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... Earth First !, which was led by Dave Foreman . These activists argued that protests and writing letters was not sufficient . Earth Firsters sought out more active methods of action , which became known as " eco - radicalism " or " eco ...
... earth . School children by the hundreds of thousands roamed through parks , city streets , and suburban ... earth's temperature to rise to levels that will threaten life itself . . . . The American business community , ordinarily ...
... Earth " followed on December 7 , 1972 , during the Apollo 17 mission . Together , these images profoundly altered human ideas of Earth . " Whole Earth " reached an American public ready to reconsider its place in the world and led to ...