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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... increased by more than 10 times . The world population also increased incredibly : demographic historians estimate that if one took all the years lived by the 80 billion hominids that have ever been born in the past four million years ...
... increasing mechanization of industry began to creep into other parts of everyday life . Although the automobile became an ... increased output altered patterns of American consumption . But technology also became linked to the lives that ...
... increased from 25 to 35 percent between 1880 and 1900. World War I brought a great boon to wheat farmers as the federal government urged that " Wheat will win the War ! " The demand for farm commodities increased and land values rose ...