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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... Love Canal , the Hooker Chemical Company dumped 21,800 tons of waste into an abandoned canal in New York between 1942 and 1953 , it was practicing disposal methods seen throughout industrial America . It was business as usual in the ...
... ( Love Canal ) . DOCUMENT : EXCERPT FROM NEW YORK STATE HEALTH ORDER On August 2 , 1978 , the New York State Department of Health issued a historic finding in the following health order . It recommend that the 99th Street School be closed ...
... ( Love Canal ) NATURE IN EVERYDAY LIFE : DDT Chemicals , including some of those buried in Love Canal , were one of the great- est symbols of the modern era of technological solutions to everyday problems . In 1939 scientists were stunned ...