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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... responsible for 14 national parks and 21 national monuments by 1916 , it had no organization to manage them . Typically , parks were staffed by the army - not for security purposes but because they were the only available federal ...
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... responsibility . They pressed for protections for workers , taxpayers , and the environment . In 1969 Nader established the ... responsible for trapping heat in the Earth's atmo- sphere . These gases are credited by many scientists for ...
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