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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... scientific understandings that eventually moved abroad . One catalyst for the spread of these ideas occurred from July 1913 to September 1913 , when American ecologists led by Cowles hosted the International Phytogeographic Excursion in ...
... scientific findings brought into question basic assumptions that Americans had about their own safety and many of the chemicals that they used to create their comfortable standard of living . At the time of the writing of Silent Spring ...
... Scientific explanations for this decline are complex and include a number of dif- ferent factors . Essentially , eagles and humans were in competition for the same food , and humans , with guns and traps at their disposal , had the ...