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American Medical Association, 95
American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU), 40, 41, 62
American Petroleum Institute, 275; fossil fuel
company involvement, 274; Global Climate
Science Communications Team, 272
American Philosophical Society, 20, 28
American Revolution, 3, 83, 84
Americans: colonies, 14, 21; democracy, 45; diet,
environmental impact of, 243; economy, 151;
educated, 21; environment, 70; environmental
history, 285–300; environmentalist, 26; farmers,
22; fascination with, 23; generation of, 114;
life expectancy, 67; nations, 19; passions of, 21;
political power, 219; scientific societies, 40; society,
122; transcendentalists, 40
American Scholar (1884), 43
Amundsen Sea sector, 282
Anatidae, 62
Anderson, Kevin, 262
Andros, Edmund, 14
“An Ecomodernist Manifesto”, 269–71
animals: mystical concept of, 92; plants and, 31; race
of, 31
anticipated adverse effects, 136
antient method of living, 19
anti-environmentalism, 204
antiscience, 206–10; crowd, 208–9
anti-Vietnam War protesters, 147
AOU. See American Ornithologists’ Union
Appalachian Mountain Club, 41
appellee’s property rights, 91
Aquifer, Oglalla, 257
arid regions, lands of, 64–66, 153
Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), 210
Article XXVIII to the California Constitution, 125
ascertaining process, 91
assessment, and control measures, 171
Atkins, Thomas, 11
Atlantic coast, 21, 22
Atomic Energy Commission, 178
Audubon, John James, 23, 36, 42, 63
Audubon Society, 40, 63
Austin, Benjamin, 24
automotive emissions control, 185
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Babbitt, Bruce, 221–23, 225
Bacillus thuringiensis, 207
Bacon, Francis, 10–11, 106
balance of nature, 119
Ballinger, Richard, 79–81
Barlow, Maude, 255
Bartram, John, 20, 26
Bartram, William, 23, 26–27
Basel Convention, 216
Basin Ecosystem, 226
beach nourishment projects, 265
Bennett, D. W., 265
Berry, Wendell, 255
Beston, Henry, 88, 92
best system of emission reduction (BSER), 276
BFRs. See brominated flame retardants
Bierstadt, Albert, 64
Biggers, Jeff, 241–42
Bill of Rights, 83
biocentric approach, 151
biomass energy, 305
Biophilia (Wilson), 166
biosphere, 305
biota, 305
The Biotech Century (Rifkin), 201
biotechnology: and environment, 201–2; research,
206–10; revolution, 153
birding, 101
bird-protection law, 23
birds: destruction of, 63; population, 101; protection,
in Massachusetts, 33; senseless destruction of, 36;
wild, protection of, 63
bird-wearing women, 63
bison, 305; decimation of, 42
Bittman, Mark, 243
Blackstone, William, 3, 19
Bloomberg, Michael, 264
boat transportation, 22
Bonum, Gorge, 12
Bookchin, Murray, 120
Boone and Crockett Club, 41, 64, 87
Boone, Daniel, 70
Borlaug, Norman E., 206–10, 212
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, 238
Boulding, Kenneth E., 126–27
Bradford, William, 9–10
Brandeis, Justice Louis, 90
Brandeis, Louis, 89
Brand, Stewart, 268, 269
British colonies, 21
British Ecological Society, 96
broad distributional, 101
brominated flame retardants (BFRs), 214
Bromo-Seltzer, 95
Brookhaven Town Natural Resources
Committee, 138