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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... green . Number 555 , though , has no green . It is surrounded by pebbles and packed dirt . Where other residents have placed trees that must be watered twice a day , 555 has cacti , sagebrush , and other plants indigenous to the ...
... green grass is a social and cultural product of the age of con- spicuous consumption . Its roots , though , fall within the realm of gardening . Ideas such as xeriscaping reintroduce the ethic of gardening , while requiring that such a ...
... Green Consumption , 161-63 . See also Green Culture ; Whole Earth Catalogue Green culture : auto industry's effort to connect with green ethic , 173-75 ; Bambi , as early example of green culture , 159 ; Bambi's use in Smokey Bear ...