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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... symbol of the nation's precarious present . The industrial , and increasingly electrical , revolutions were ... symbols of American aspirations and ideals , even if some Introduction xiii.
... symbol , the building's opening attracted President Herbert Hoover and New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt . The 102 - story , 1,250 - foot - high building had been con- structed in only 13 months — a rate of more than one story per ...
... symbol had also become a symbol of the possibilities of environmen- tal regulation . In the early 1900s , eagles inhabited every large river and concentration of lakes in the interior United States . It was estimated that eagles nested ...