The environment / William Dudley, book editor.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dudley, William, 1964-
Language:English
Published: Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, [2006], ©2006.
Series:History of issues.
Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Environmentalism > United States > History.
Physical Description:224 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • ch. 1. The early conservation movement
  • 1. Nineteenth-century origins of American environmentalism / Peter Wild
  • 2. Americans must value nature and the wild / Henry David Thoreau
  • 3. An early call for resource conservation / George Perkins Marsh
  • 4. The United States must take steps to conserve its natural resources / Theodore Roosevelt
  • 5. America's natural resources are not being squandered / George L. Knapp
  • 6. Preservationists and conservationists clash over America's natural resources / Benjamin Kline
  • 7. Hetch Hetchy Valley must be preserved / John Muir
  • 8. Hetch Hetchy Valley should be dammed / Gifford Pinchot
  • 9. America's vanishing wildlife must be preserved / William T. Hornaday
  • ch. 2. Debates of the mid-twentieth century
  • 1. A new environmental ethic is needed / Aldo Leopold
  • 2. Rachel Carson's fight against pesticides / Caula A. Beyl
  • 3. The dangers of pollution are exaggerated / Nation's Business
  • 4. The federal government must act to reduce pollution
  • 5. Americans must undertake an environmental revolution / Edmund S. Muskie
  • ch. 3. Diverging strategies after Earth Day 1970
  • 1. Environmentalists need to embrace a spiritual approach to nature / Bill Devall, George Sessions
  • 2. Radical environmental activism is necessary to protect the wilderness / Dave Foreman
  • 3. Wilderness should not be valued more than people / William Tucker
  • 4. Radical environmentalists encourage violence / Stephen Budiansky
  • 5. The environmental movement must confront racism / Robert D. Bullard
  • 6. The environmental movement needs to adopt free market solutions / Jonathan H. Adler
  • ch. 4. Global environmental issues
  • 1. Global environmental problems require global solutions / Roger L. DiSilvestro
  • 3. International treaties will not solve today's environmental problems / Dixy Lee Ray, with Lou Guzzo
  • 3. Global warming is a great moral crisis / Bill McKibben
  • 4. Global warming is a trumped-up controversy / Duncan Maxwell Anderson
  • Chronology
  • Organizations to contact.