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Saving the Planet - The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Saving the Planet - The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
Series: American Ways
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Loot Price R462
Discovery Miles 4 620
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Since 1900 Americans' attitudes toward the world they inhabit have
changed as greatly as their own way of life. As their pace
quickened, as they left the rural world of their pre-industrial
ancestors and moved to urban areas, Americans became enamored of
the natural world, if only as a myth. In Saving the Planet, Hal
Rothman explains why Americans now see in the environment a
salvation of themselves and their society, and a respite from the
pressures of modern life. Mr. Rothman traces the origins of
environmentalism to the diverse reform currents of the 1890s and
the conservation movement of the Progressive era. Focusing on the
roles of advocacy groups, prominent activists, business,
legislation, and the federal bureaucracy, he shows how the idea of
conservation management was transformed after World War II into a
program for "quality of life." Driven largely by affluence, this
revolution in American attitudes is, Mr. Rothman argues, one of
many by-products of the decline in outright faith in technology.
His cogent narrative history is punctuated throughout with accounts
of crucial episodes in the growth of environmentalism-Hetch-Hetchy,
the Echo Park Dam, the oil spill at Santa Barbara, Love Canal, and
others.
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