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1. How did California fruit growers lead the nation in promoting a consumer economy and what effects did this have? 2. Describe how modern suburban spaces evolved. What are essential elements in describing them and what have been the unintended consequences? 3. What have been the accomplishments of the rise of the Consumerism for managing resources and what have been the unintended consequences? 4. Why did the automobile become so widespread in the United States, and what environmental impacts has it had? 5. How can the average citizen make their environmental ideas felt? How has the environmental history of the U.S. since 1960 been shaped by this question? 6. What have been the unintended consequences of the explosion of material goods with the rise of consumerism? 7. How does Steinberg describe the short-comings of a market approach to managing the long-term viability of the environment? 9. How does Rachel Carson's argument echo Eisenhower's concerns about the Military Industrial Complex? How is this conversation still ongoing? 10. What is environmentalism and how did it modify earlier conservation notions? How has it influenced American ideas today?