1. How did California fruit growers lead the nation in promoting a consumer economy and what effects did this have? 2.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 9:43 am
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?
suburban space
military industrial complex move away from the urban
spaces
GI bill, support to buy land and build their
house
prefab house (manufacture houses) efficiency to economy
of scale to create consumer products, craftsman specialist, not
standard equipment
3. What have been the accomplishments of the rise
of 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?
Concentrations of wealth
What kinds of decisions we made by big land
owners
What types of wood
Forest service - timber resources
Not going to maintain wild tangled forests but more of
tree farming that will be useful for people to purchase and build
more houses
Desire to build a house (long term economic
stability)
9. How does Rachel Carson’s argument echo
Eisenhower’s concerns about the Military Industrial Complex?
How is this conversation still ongoing?
Military industrial complex: interconnected, complicated
industries like chemistry, tires, aircraft, glass, paint,
weapons.
Built out of world war 2
US biggest purchaser of goods and services so they have
say about what is popular, what gets funding from the military
budget
Spare no expense to win the war
Chemicals helped win the war
Certain businesses get picked
10. What is environmentalism and how did it modify
earlier conservation notions? How has it influenced American ideas
today?
Land ethic writer in the 30’s and 40’s, rise of nazi
italy (dictators who want control)
Broad idea to conserve resources over time for human
use
Built tree farms, fire suppression,
conservation
Helpful Terms:
Sun Maid Consumerism Cushion scale
food sovereignty
refrigerated boxcar Thomas Midgley
Sunkist Levitt Brothers infrastructure
suburbs Model T leaded
gasoline
GM Robert Moses turf grass
Environmentalism Broker
State
Aldo Leopold Land Ethic
Rachel Carson Silent Spring
USDA DDT
Military Industrial Complex Richard
Nixon Endangered Species
Act
Deep ecology Wise Use
Green revolution commodification
Genetically Modified Foods Trojan gene
Climate Change zero waste
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?
suburban space
military industrial complex move away from the urban
spaces
GI bill, support to buy land and build their
house
prefab house (manufacture houses) efficiency to economy
of scale to create consumer products, craftsman specialist, not
standard equipment
3. What have been the accomplishments of the rise
of 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?
Concentrations of wealth
What kinds of decisions we made by big land
owners
What types of wood
Forest service - timber resources
Not going to maintain wild tangled forests but more of
tree farming that will be useful for people to purchase and build
more houses
Desire to build a house (long term economic
stability)
9. How does Rachel Carson’s argument echo
Eisenhower’s concerns about the Military Industrial Complex?
How is this conversation still ongoing?
Military industrial complex: interconnected, complicated
industries like chemistry, tires, aircraft, glass, paint,
weapons.
Built out of world war 2
US biggest purchaser of goods and services so they have
say about what is popular, what gets funding from the military
budget
Spare no expense to win the war
Chemicals helped win the war
Certain businesses get picked
10. What is environmentalism and how did it modify
earlier conservation notions? How has it influenced American ideas
today?
Land ethic writer in the 30’s and 40’s, rise of nazi
italy (dictators who want control)
Broad idea to conserve resources over time for human
use
Built tree farms, fire suppression,
conservation
Helpful Terms:
Sun Maid Consumerism Cushion scale
food sovereignty
refrigerated boxcar Thomas Midgley
Sunkist Levitt Brothers infrastructure
suburbs Model T leaded
gasoline
GM Robert Moses turf grass
Environmentalism Broker
State
Aldo Leopold Land Ethic
Rachel Carson Silent Spring
USDA DDT
Military Industrial Complex Richard
Nixon Endangered Species
Act
Deep ecology Wise Use
Green revolution commodification
Genetically Modified Foods Trojan gene
Climate Change zero waste