The environment /
This book examines shifting public opinion on the environment throughout history, and traces the path of how Americans think about the environment, with each chapter providing insightful commentary on a selected primary source. A comprehensive timeline of significant events related to environmental...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amenia, New York :
Grey House Publishing,
[2019]
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| Series: | Opinions throughout history.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Pre-American ecology : environmental alteration is addressed (1100-1854)
- 2. Colonial environmentalism : the first land use & timber regulations (1681)
- 3. Transcending society : the sacrament of wilderness (1862)
- 4. The national park system : preserving wilderness for public use (1865)
- 5. Animals and the environment : creation of the ASPCA (1866)
- 6. The timber barons : profit vs. sustainability (1889)
- 7. The conservationists : save what is left of the forests (1901)
- 8. Naturalist in the capital, Theodore Roosevelt : American wilderness as America's cultural heritage (1908)
- 9. The park service : reforming the federal park management system (1908)
- 10. Lobbyists for life : devastating effects form unlikely alliance (1936)
- 11. The whole of the wild : interconnectiveness of nature (1944)
- 12. Change is in the air : the first Air Pollution Control Act (1955)
- 13. Environmental progress : synthetic pesticides and corporate accountability (1962)
- 14. The new danger : the protection of endangered species (1966)
- 15. Smoke on the water : the Environmental Protection Agency (1970)
- 16. The environmental days : the first Earth Day (1970)
- 17. Beyond the government : Greenpeace makes international headlines (1975)
- 18. Pollution solutions : changes in the automobile industry (1970)
- 19. Ozone depletion : success of the Montreal Protocol (1987)
- 20. Climate chaos part I : the first warning is sounded (1847)
- 21. Climate chaos part II : climate-change denial (1980s-2000s)
- 22. Globalizing environmentalism : international conferences (1972-2017)
- 23. Oceans in the balance : the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (1997)
- 24. Urbane ecology : development of green cities (1800s-present)
- 25. Renewing perspectives : harnessing wind, water, and sun (1960s-present)
- 26. Cyclic waste : reduce, reuse, recycle (1970s-present)
- 27. America's black heart : the debate over coal (2017)
- 28. Leaving the environment behind : environmental policies rolled back (2017).