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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... lead , arsenic , mercury , and organic solvents , as well as to radium , which was used in manufacture of watch dials . Although many reformers argued that the industrial environment had become unsafe , Hamilton was one of the first ...
... lead added to a gallon of gasoline hovered in the vicinity of 2.4 grams . The Department of Health , Education and Welfare , which was home to the surgeon general starting with the Kennedy administration , had authority over lead ...
... lead were becoming obvious . In January 1971 , EPA's first administrator , William D. Ruckelshaus , declared that “ an extensive body of information exists which indicates that the addition of alkyl lead to gas- oline ... results in lead ...
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