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Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Philosophical Foundations | p. 5 |
Biblical Justification for Dominating Nature | p. 5 |
Seeking New Land | p. 8 |
Rational Nature of the World | p. 10 |
Social and Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century | p. 13 |
Conclusion | p. 15 |
The 1400s through the 1700s: Inhabiting a New Land | p. 17 |
Native Americans as Prototypical Environmentalists | p. 18 |
Early Colonial Environmental Attitudes | p. 21 |
Conclusion | p. 26 |
The Early 1800s: Destroying the Frontier | p. 29 |
Manifest Destiny | p. 30 |
Domesticating the Wilderness | p. 32 |
Final Conquest of the West | p. 35 |
Renewed Interest in Nature | p. 38 |
Conclusion | p. 41 |
The Late 1880s: Building an Industrial Nation | p. 43 |
Population Growth and Consumerism | p. 43 |
Devastating the Land | p. 47 |
Overconsumption of Natural Resources | p. 48 |
Voices for Nature | p. 52 |
Conclusion | p. 56 |
The 1900s through the 1930s: Beginnings of the Conservation Movement | p. 59 |
Conservation during the Progressive Era | p. 60 |
Environmental Decay during the Roaring Twenties | p. 68 |
Conservation Policies under Roosevelt's New Deal | p. 72 |
Conclusion | p. 76 |
The 1940s through the 1960s: Prelude to the Green Decade | p. 79 |
Environmental Costs of Scientific Progress in the 1940s | p. 80 |
The Conservative 1950s | p. 81 |
Emerging Voices in the 1960s | p. 82 |
The Environmental Movement Begins to Mobilize | p. 87 |
Conclusion | p. 91 |
The 1970s: The Conservation Movement Matures | p. 95 |
Mainstream and Alternative Environmental Groups | p. 96 |
New Environmental Legislation | p. 103 |
Jimmy Carter and the Envirocrats | p. 107 |
Conclusion | p. 111 |
The 1980s: A Conservative Backlash | p. 113 |
Ronald Reagan's Environmental Deregulation | p. 114 |
George Bush as the Environmental President | p. 117 |
Employment versus the Environment | p. 120 |
Environmental Groups Actions and Reactions | p. 121 |
International Environmental Concern | p. 123 |
Conclusion | p. 126 |
The Early 1990s: Government Retrenchment and Public Apathy | p. 129 |
Environmental Optimism under Bill Clinton | p. 129 |
A Growing Countermovement | p. 131 |
A Green Revival | p. 133 |
A Conservative Resurgence | p. 138 |
Conclusion | p. 145 |
The Late 1990s: The Institutionalization of the Environmental Movement | p. 147 |
Clinton's Moderate Environmental Approach | p. 148 |
Growing Public Concern | p. 152 |
New Activism | p. 156 |
Congressional Action and Inaction | p. 159 |
The Global Future of the Environmental Movement | p. 164 |
Conclusion | p. 167 |
The Environmental Movement in the Post 9/11 World: 2000-2010 | p. 171 |
George W. Bush | p. 171 |
Bush and Changing Regulations | p. 174 |
The Debate and the Gamble | p. 176 |
Barack Obama: The Presidency of 'Change' | p. 177 |
The Environment and the Presidential Election of 2008 | p. 178 |
Obama and the Environment | p. 179 |
Copenhagen | p. 180 |
Pros and Cons | p. 183 |
NIMBYism | p. 184 |
The BP Oil Spill Disaster | p. 186 |
Conclusion | p. 187 |
Conclusion | p. 189 |
Glossary | p. 195 |
Bibliography and Suggested Readings | p. 209 |
Index | p. 217 |
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