CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 ENVIRONMENTALISM An OvERVIEW 10 CHAPTER 2 HisTORY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MovEMENT 24 NUCLEAR SI THE SOLUTI CHAPTER 3 AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 39 CHAPTER 4 HisTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 50 CHAPTER 5 ENDANGERED SPECIES 64 CHAPTER 6 EXAMPLES OF ENDANGERED SPECIES 76 85 CONCLUSION GoSSARY For MORE INFORMATION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX 86 89 93 95
ounting evidence suggests that human activities are warming Earth at an alarming rate Global warming could alter social and economic fab rics around the world as its environmental effects play out Global warming is among the top concerns of the environmental move ment today However such an enormous problem is more than individuals can solve In the end the solution lies with governments which can change policies and mandate behaviors with a pen stroke This volume explores the intersection of environmental ism and politics It introduces the various schools of environmentalism as well as the field of environmental law which provides a means for carrying out real environmental as change The book also offers an overview of a US key factor of the environmental movement the protection of endangered species The modern environmental movement developed in the late 19th century Early envi S ronmental organizations were concerned mainly with nature conservation wildlife pro tection and limiting the pollution that arose from industrial development The move ment included diverse schools of
INTRODUCTION For example during the early 1900s debates raged among conservationists over building a dam on Yosemite National Park's Tuolumne River to provide San Francisco with water Preservationist members of the conserva tion movement advocating the preservation of nature for its own sake opposed the dam on principle Utilitarian members of the movement advocating the wise use of nat ural resources supported the project The preservationists lost the dam was completed in 1923 However the debate inspired pres ervationists to campaign for national park protection which led to the creation of the National Park Service Plitvice Lakes National Park Croatia Shutterstock com
