GEO 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gaylord Nelson, Rachel Carson, Mexican Federal Highway 2

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 103
• Professor: Robert Wilson

Document Summary

Characteristics (of a liberal democracy: free and regular elections, freedom of speech, free media, political authority not concentrated in single person, party, or location, more-than-one political party. Dawning of the environmental era: wwii and its aftermath. What the u. s. was like during this time: rapid economic growth rising affluence (middle class growth, growth of suburbs, middle class, auto-culture (example: drive in movie theaters, growth in manufacturing. Key wwii technological developments: nuclear weapons and nuclear power, synthetic pesticides (used to fill insects, herbicides to kill weeds) Against synthetic biocides (pesticides: spreading ddt (chemical in pesticides) on a farm can then trace all the way to an infant being fed, critique of prevailing views of nature, cold war concerns. The book had an effect not only in the u. s. but around the world as well. Unease with progress: nu(cid:272)lear (cid:449)eapo(cid:374)s (cid:894)(cid:858)the (cid:271)o(cid:373)(cid:271)(cid:859)(cid:895, pesticides (how are they effecting my body?, material abundance (consumption) Atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) to (cid:862)dark side(cid:863) of afflue(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)ptio(cid:374)