Death by Our Own "Too Much": Post WWII Anxieties
Geography 339 with Tennessen/turner at University of Wisconsin - Madison
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First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement
Created: 2009-02-11
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WWII (dates)
1939-1945
What does chemical industry of WWII turn to after war?
agricultural pesticides
baby boom
huge increase in population after WWII
suburban sprawl
people need places to live due to high increase in population
-straight roads, similar houses
--'American dream' became accessible to all
-straight roads, similar houses
--'American dream' became accessible to all
Where does the population re-locate to? and why?
-people move WEST and SOUTH due to water shortages
1956
Interstate Highway Act signed by Eisenhower
Interstate Highway Act
$25 billion for 41,000 miles of interstate
-Dwight Eisenhower
-1956
-Dwight Eisenhower
-1956
Braess' Paradox
Increase in highways only enhance, rather than reduce, traffic congestion because the more roads there are the more people will use them
1957
National Association of Homebuilders film
Planned Unit Development
Planning an entire area, community-scale, not individual lot planning)
Clusters
preserve open land, concentrate utilities
Townhouse
increased density
Hugh Moore
1954 population bomb pamphlets
"we will run out of natural resources because we're using them so fast"
"we will run out of natural resources because we're using them so fast"
1954
Hugh Moore "population bomb" pamphlets
"population bomb pamphlets"
who and when?
who and when?
Hugh Moore
1954
1954
Margaret Sanger
women's rights advocate, birth control advocate to control steadily increasing population
founder of Planned Parenthood and advocate of "the pill"
founder of Planned Parenthood and advocate of "the pill"
1960
"the pill"
-Margaret Sanger = big advocate
-Margaret Sanger = big advocate
1940's realization
people first realized that we can destroy the earth in a matter of hours (with the dropping of the a-bomb)
1945
July 16, first atomic bomb test
strontium 90
radiation and fallout left this around
Fairfield Osborn
"Our Plundered Planet" 1948
Eugene and Howard Odum
pioneer concept of ecosystem (nutrient/toxin cycling, web of life, food chains)
who pioneers the concept of ecosystem?
Eugene and Howard Odum
Fundamentals of Ecology (book) when and who wrote it?
1953, Eugene Odum
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring, marine ecologist, The Sea Around Us (1952)
Olga Huckins
friend of Carson who notices deaths of songbirds in hometown and wonders if it may be because of pesticides?
....leads to "Silent Spring"
....leads to "Silent Spring"
1952
Carson writes "The Sea Around Us" and it becomes a bestseller
About this deck
By: Kelsey Kaufman
Textbook: First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement
Created: 2009-02-11
Size: 27 flashcards
Views: 7
Textbook:
First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental MovementCreated: 2009-02-11
Size: 27 flashcards
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