Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American LifeBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M05 30 - 237 páginas 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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... agricultural traditions grew at least partly from national cultural patterns . Here , in the country's breadbasket , settlers had been assured that vast fields of wheat were the best way of making a profit from the vast expanse of flat ...
... agricultural technology from around the world . Referred to as the " Green Revolution , " the effort to bring new agricultural know - how to developing nations radically altered the possibility of famine while also attacking the primary ...
... Agriculture : Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 , 75 ; Borlaug , Norman , and Green Revolution , 182 ; Dust Bowl , 74 , 91 ; Green Revolution , brings agriculture technology to developing world , 182 ; organic gardening , as one ...
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