The Environmental Debate, Third Edition

The Roots of the Conservation Movement, 1890–1919 85 wealth we found upon this continent has made us rich. We have used it, as w ...

The end of World War I brought with it a slacken- ing of economic and industrial constraints and a surging demand for consumer g ...

Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920–1959 87 far from convenient shopping and transportation. These suburbs spawned a new ...

88 The Environmental Debate Technology and Resource Policy in the Nuclear Age One of the reactions to the devastation caused by ...

Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920–1959 89 A. The Case and the Court’s Ruling This is a bill in equity brought by the d ...

90 The Environmental Debate Every restriction upon the use of property imposed in the exercise of the police power deprives the ...

Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920–1959 91 board of appeals for relief as it might have done under the terms of the ord ...

92 The Environmental Debate shall proceed within definitely fixed lines. If it be a proper exercise of the police power to releg ...

Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920–1959 93 DOCUMENT 77: Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Destruction of America’s Forests ( ...

94 The Environmental Debate Document 78: Stuart Chase on Waste in the Machine Age (1931) An author of popular books on economic ...

Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920–1959 95 DOCUMENT 79: Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink on the Dangers of Manufactured ...

96 The Environmental Debate of plenty. When the buffalo roamed the plains in multitudes he slaughtered only what he could eat an ...

Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920–1959 97 DOCUMENT 82: H. V. Harlan and M. L. Martini on the Loss of Genetic Diversity ...

98 The Environmental Debate this basis, a stable social adjustment could be worked out for every part of the region, and for eve ...

Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920–1959 99 Document 84: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Like Jonathan Edwar ...

100 The Environmental Debate Document 85: Marjory Stoneman Douglas on the Everglades (1947) The Florida Everglades, so eloquentl ...

Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920–1959 101 DOCUMENT 86: Roger Tory Peterson on Bird Population (1948) The noted ornith ...

102 The Environmental Debate Document 87: Fairfield Osborn on the Interrelatedness of All Living Things (1948) Fairfield Osborn, ...

Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920–1959 103 of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete ...

104 The Environmental Debate it seems preferable to any opposite, which to us implies stagnation and decay. Where there may be a ...