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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... industrial city as Pittsburgh , the medical profession or the department of factory inspectors might take the initial steps toward overcoming the tendency to trade disease by giving employers and legislators more facts about industrial ...
... industrial and technological expansion in the United States unlike any the world had seen previously . Job creation and industrial development were unequivocally considered to be social goods , in a fashion distinct from any previous ...
... industrial pollut- ants . An investigation by the state government's Bureau of Industrial Hygiene revealed an extraordinarily high level of sulfur dioxide , soluble sulphants , and fluorides in the air . According to the agency's report ...
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