Bookchin Warns of Synthetic Hazards
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Science, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: United States
- Date: 1962
Article abstract: Murray Bookchin’s Our Synthetic Environment helped to alert the public to the dangers to health and life emanating from postwar America’s increasingly artificial environment.
Summary of Event
From 1776 until the mid-1920’s, Americans inhabited a meagerly populated continent within what was first a largely natural and then a predominantly rural environment. Until the last half of the nineteenth century, vast areas of the continent bore close resemblances to the landscapes that had been familiar to American Indians thousands of...
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