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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... society to fight the use of feathers , particularly in women's fashion . Hats decorated with feathers , bird parts , and even entire stuffed birds were a mainstay of the upper - class woman in France and England . Eight to 10 warblers ...
... society , including the inability of specific ethnic groups to succeed in American society . CLASS AND SOCIAL DARWINISM In this complicated fashion , the nature of urban reform in the early 1900s is intertwined with the bias and racism ...
... society , the new environmentalists came most from the middle class that grew rapidly after World War II ( Opie , 418–25 ) . During the 1970s and 1980s , these NGOs helped to bring environmen- tal concern into mainstream American ...