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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... Standard Oil Trust from the ashes of this initial setback . By the end of the 1870s , Standard controlled roughly 80 percent of the world's oil supply . By dominating transportation and refining , Rockefeller dominated the market . An ...
... standards of purity and quality set forth in guidebooks prepared by committees of physicians and pharmacists , or meet individual standards chosen by their manufacturers and stated on their labels . The exact implications of the law ...
... standards ) for all its car and light trucks sold in the United States . In a compromise with manufacturers , the complex standards were calculated as a total for the entire fleet of autos and trucks made by each company . Thus , the ...