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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... electricity . Thomas Edison , Nicholas Tesla , and other inventor / entrepreneurs were rapidly devising new technologies that allowed electricity to be moved from place to place and applied to a variety of tasks . With the expansion of ...
... electricity ( Riesner , 110–15 ) .In addition , President Roosevelt also appointed an Inland Waterways Commission in 1907 , which subsequently issued a report advocating a national policy of planned development of water resources ...
... electric cars . Electric or hybrid cars were introduced to the United States in 1905 when H. Piper applied for a patent on a vehicular power - train that used electricity to augment a gasoline engine . Piper's technology actually fol ...
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