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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... ideas ; however , he was able to syn- thesize the work of others and to promote their ideas to business owners in search of solutions . In the late - nineteenth - century workplace , managers had little inter- action with the actual ...
... ideas would form the foundation of all of environmental thought ( Worster , Nature's Economy , 209-18 ) . THE INTERNATIONAL PHYTOGEOGRAPHIC EXCURSION OF 1913 The United States acted as an incubator for some of these new scientific ...
... ideas of conservation to the landscape , the alternative ethic of preservation also found new energy . Leopold and others combined the new ideas of ecology with Muir's conception of preservation to organize their efforts around the idea ...
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