History of the Environment Questions
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what did Carson (20th century naturalists) write?
What is the cost to society of having less pollution, which is offset by benefits to society of activity creating pollution?
In the early 2000s, there was a superfund site where a town switched their water supply and didn't properly treat the water so lead seeped into the water through the pipes. What site is this?
What means it takes a lot of money to clean up a polluted site?
What is the right to every citizen regardless of age, race and gender, social class or other factor, to adequate protection from environmental hazards?
what constituted an early work on ecology, and played a role in the creation of the Adirondack park?
what was the basis for the soil conservation service, which was created by franklin roosevelt?
After environmental legislation, percentages go in what direction?
what president reserved an additional 6.5 million hectares signing bill preventing further forest reservation?
What is the cost of small additional amount of pollution?
what required the government to protect the habitat of endangered species?
What superfund cite carries contamination from sewer system overflow, sanitary waste, rainwater, and industrial pollutants? Manufactured gas plants, paper mills, tanneries and chemical plants operated along the canal and dumped their waste into it?
what did Stegner (20th century naturalist) write?
who argued that deforestation could lead to desertification?
what was the cornerstone of environmental law, requires environmental impact statements (EIS) for any proposed federal action, and revolutionized environmental protection in US?
What is the study of how people use limited resources to satisfy unlimited wants?
what is painted nature which increased interest in the environment?
what values natural resources for their usefulness? (think what can U do for me)
in the 19th century US naturalists voiced concerns about what?
who heightened awareness of DDT and pesticides?