HIST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World Wide Fund For Nature, American Medical Association, Endangered Species Act Of 1973
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Week nine hist 1150 the modern world march 14th. Read sources of global change since 1900 (275-279), richard silk, peter montague, endangered planet. Americans were banned from swimming in dying lakes and rivers, they listened to smog reports on the radio, worried about links between nuclear fallouts testing to higher rates of cancer. 1962 is marked as the beginning of the modern environmental movement in the united states. Carson"s book highlighted the growing use of synthetic herbicides, pesticides, and insecticide. Blanket spraying destroys nature, is expensive, contains features of built-in obsolescence. The income tax bill contains a provision which permits certain lobbying expenses to be considered a business expense deduction lobbyist may deduct irrelevant to legislation. American medical association physicians to a pesticide trade association for info to help them answer patients" questions about the effects of pesticides on man. Industry plan to save us from global warming a nightmare, not a dream peter montague.
