The Greening of a Nation?: Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945The first balanced look at the evolution and significance of environmentalism, THE GREENING OF A NATION demonstrates the many attitudes Americans have held toward nature, as well as how these attitudes have created the social and cultural concerns of the post-1945 era. The text synthesizes the many facets of environmentalism in an even-handed manner, showing both the triumphs and shortcomings of the concept. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
EnvironMENT AS AN UPPER | 7 |
Conservation and the Quiet Afterglow | 15 |
Copyright | |
19 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
administration advocates agriculture Ameri American society areas Barbara oil spill battle beautification became began bill bomb Brower Bureau of Reclamation Canyon Dam Carson century challenged changes Clawson climate concerns Congress consequences conservation conservationists constituency created cultural decade dominated Earth Day Echo Park economic efforts Endangered Species Act envi environment environmental issues environmental movement environmentalists federal agencies federal government federal land Forest Service goals Grand Canyon Green Revolution Hardin idea important increased increasingly individual Interior Iron Eyes Cody Lady Bird Johnson legislation Love Canal mainstream ment Mexico national forest National Park NEPA Park Service political pollution population postwar President problems programs prosperity range recreational reflected regulations response result River ronmental rural Santa Barbara Santa Barbara oil seemed Sierra Club Silent Spring smog social sought Stewart Udall Tellico Dam timber industry tion toxic Udall urban Wilderness Act