Americans and environment : the controversy over ecology / edited and with an introd. by John Opie.
| Author/creator | Opie, John, 1934- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lexington, Mass. : D. C. Heath, [1971] |
| Description | xiv, 203 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Problems in American civilization Problems in American civilization. ^A68211 |
| Contents | The romantic philosophy of nature, by R. W. Emerson.--Man as predator on the earth, by G. P. Marsh.--Wilderness makes men new, by T. Roosevelt.--In wildness is the preservation of the world, by J. Muir.--Wild land is wasted land, by G. Pinchot.--Immoral man and the moral universe, by A. Leopold.--Biology or oblivion? By R. Carson.--The resulting outcry, by F. Graham, Jr.--Population by P. R. Ehrlich.--Urban society, by J. Burchard.-- Pollution, by R. Reinow and L. T. Reinow.--Wilderness and conservation, by J. Ramsey.--A new ultimate science? By P. B. Sears.--The naturalist's vision, by L. Eiseley.--Emerson's "naked eyeball" revisited, by A. Watts.--Trusting the way of the earth, by T. Roszak.--Technology can become more human, by E. A. Walker.--Man's Faustian powers, by H. Kahn and A. J. Wiener.--Suggestions for additional reading (p. 200-203) |
| LCCN | 76160030 |
| ISBN | 0669616141 |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | QH541 .O65 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |