The climate has been a cause for concern for decades. It is important we understand how this issue affects our society and how our society has influenced the climate today. Throughout time, perspectives on climate change have varied. Below, learn more about how information, administrations, society, and science has changed since the 1800’s (1).
19th Century1800's - 1900'sDominant Thinking of the TIme
20th Century1900's - 1950'sDominant Thinking of the Time
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Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level… There is very high confidence that the global average net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming" (5). 2010'sDominant Thinking of the Time
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Terms"The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable" (2). "It was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption" (3). He was known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", [he] was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America" (4). "Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement, with his ecocentric or holistic ethics regarding land. He emphasized biodiversity and ecology and was a founder of the science of wildlife management (5). |