Evolution of Environmental Thinking Powerpoint

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Celia Roesser

Environmental Foundations and Principles

EM500-01November 5, 2013

Evolution of

Environmental Thinking


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SHIFT TO EUROPEAN DOMINANCE

Native American

Territorial rights andowned what they madewith their hands

Seasonal migration to wherethere was plenty of food

Men hunt, women farm

Started fur trade and formednew economy in New England,and later land

Created fenced in propertiesand permanent settlements

European Settlers

Land ownership -Granted land by the crownwith no consideration of priorownership and disregard forthe Indians claim to it.

Improved land for grazing bydestroying the forests or cut andburn

Men farm (thought of Native

Americans as lazy forhunting)

Traded wampum for furs

Brought disease

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All things are connected.

Whatever befalls the earth

Befalls the sons of the earth.Man did not weave the web of life,

He is merely a strand in it.

Whatever he does to the web,

He does to himself.

--CHIEF SEATTLE

NATIVE AMERICANS


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National Park Movement - Yellowstone

Sierra Club

Shaped the commons

Land

Air

Water

Forest management

Endangered species

Intrinsic value of nature

I only went out for a walk andfinally concluded to stay out till

sundown, for going out, I found,

was really going in.

John Muir

Aldo

Leopold

PRESERVATION

Forgive them; they know not what they do.


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PRESERVATION

Cease being intimidated

by the argument that a

right action is

impossible because it

does not yield

maximum profits, or

that a wrong action is

to be condoned

because it pays.

Aldo Leopold,

A Sand County Almanac
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CONSERVATION

Father of American Conservation

Riches of this continent should be used for all the people to provide a more abundant life

Waste of these resources or exploitation by a few were a threat to our democratic life

Career marked the beginning of a professional approach in preserving our natural resources

U.S. Forest Service had to invent the tools and policies needed to manage public lands

After WWII, a new scientific understanding of ecosystems helped form a vision for publicland management that continues to evolve and guide the U.S. Forest Service.

where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question will always be decided

from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.

Gifford Pinchot, Chief Forester, 1905


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HENRY DAVID THOREAU - WILDNESS

IN WILDNESS IS THE PRESERVATION OF THE WORLD. HENRY D. THOREAU


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Rachel Carson

We stand now where two

roads diverge. But unlike the

roads in Robert Frosts

familiar poem, they are not

equally fair. The road we

have long been traveling isdeceptively easy, a smooth

superhighway on which we

progress with great speed,

but at its end lies disaster.

The other fork of the road

the one less traveled by

offers our last, our only

chance to reach a destination

that assures the preservation

of the earth.

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

1962 June

First of three installments of Silent Spring

published as Reporter at Large in The New

Yorker September Silent Spring published by

Houghton Mifflin December Silent Spring, a

book-of-the-month club selection

1963 January

Albert Schweitzer award from Animal Welfare

Institute April 3 CBS Reports airs The Silent

Spring of Rachel Carson.

1963 June 3

Carson testifies on the misuse of pesticides; US

Senate Subcommittee of Government

Operations. 88th Cong. 1st.sess.

1963 June 6

Carson testifies before the US Senate

Committee on Commerce December Awarded

the National Audubon Society Medal. Inducted

into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

1964 April 14 Carson dies in Silver Spring, Md. at age 56.


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Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered

an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the

cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness

created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.

Roderick Nash

Wilderness and the American Mind, 1967.The American Environment: Readings in the History of Conservation, 1968.

The Call of the Wild 1900-1916. 1970.

Environment and Americans: The Problem of Priorities. 1972.

The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. 1989.

American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History, 1990.

The Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids of the American West, 1989.

The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930. 1990.

Nash, Roderick, Gregory Graves.From These Beginnings: A Biographical

Approach to American History, Volume II, 6/e. 1995.


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MODERN ATTITUDES

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MODERN ATTITUDES

A part of the frontier myth.the notion that you go the

United States, you go to the wilderness and you startover, you shed the trappings of civilization, you wipe

clean the slate, start from first principles, invent the

good society, that is operating in American politics long

after we're concerned about the frontier.

When John Kennedy talks about the new frontier ofspace, and when Star Trek talks about space the final

frontier, those are all about the newness of America, and

the possibility of being new in this landscape, and the

frontier is very much a part of that vision.

William Cronon

The ancient manner of telling these interconnected stories to explain, nature, the gods, and

human life, was called mythology. Our modern manner is similar, but our complex

mythology entails historical research. It includes the history of science. It demands that we

determine what we value in our relationships to all of life and to the non-human. And it re-

imagines and discloses the natural world in color, word, song and tale. Glenn Adelson


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wilderness and do we need it? (Ed.), Environment: An

interdisciplinary anthology, (pp. 541-549). New Haven, CT: YaleUniversity Press.

Carson, R. (1954). Rachel Carson, from And No Birds Sing in SilentSpring (1962). In G. Adelson (Ed.), Environment: An interdisciplinaryanthology, (pp. 541-549). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Cronon, W. (2003). Changes in the land: Indians, colonists, and the

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