The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

Foreword Since the last edition of The Environmental Debate was published in 2011, controversy over environmen- tal issues has i ...

Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980–1999 Politicizing the Environmental Debate, 2000–2017 Special Features In addi ...

Preface The Environmental Debate is a documentary history of how Americans have thought about environmental issues from the colo ...

development, several of the more recent documents underline the need to recognize limits to our ability to control nature. Selec ...

Introduction The advancement of technological development and scientific knowledge that began 500-600 years ago not only laid th ...

xxiv The Environmental Debate conservation became a major issue. However, only after the dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945 and ...

Introduction xxv and for the elderly to live longer. Obviously, human population cannot continue to increase indefinitely, and i ...

xxvi The Environmental Debate Conflict over water use has long existed in this country, and it will undoubtedly increase as the ...

Introduction xxvii In the 1950s and 1960s, nuclear power seemed to offer great hope as a source of cheap, clean energy. Aside fr ...

xxviii The Environmental Debate rain, which causes widespread damage to forests and life in lakes and rivers. Activated by sunli ...

Introduction xxix potential sources of disease, when these wastes accumulate and cannot be digested fairly rapidly their disposa ...

xxx The Environmental Debate and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chemical compounds used to moderate heat in electric transfor ...

Introduction xxxi single tree species intended to be harvested all at once. This type of tree farming and harvesting, known as m ...

xxxii The Environmental Debate driving these now harder-to-find fish to the brink of extinction. With fishermen harvesting fewer ...

Introduction xxxiii has been bred out of the current domesticated varieties but that may be of critical value in rejuvenating do ...

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About twelve to fourteen thousand years ago, when the sea level was substantially lower than it is today and Asia and North Amer ...

Netherlands, or elsewhere in Europe—brought with them very similar attitudes about the relationship between humans and the natur ...

and daisies and, in their bodies, the microorganisms that cause smallpox and measles. When they returned to Europe they took wit ...

4 The Environmental Debate A. Genesis: The Story of Creation So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he ...