Environmental thinking
Nature and Americans
Environment
Ecologist Paul Sears, Deserts on the March, 1935
Dust
Bowl
Desertification
worldwide
Ecologist, ornithologist, conservationist William Vogt, The
Road to Survival, 1948
International
bestseller
A
history of the planet
Too
many people
Abuse
of the land
Globally
interconnected problem: environment
Biologist Fairfield Osborn, Our Plundered Planet, 1948
Too
many people abusing natural resources
International scientific cooperation
1948,
United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of
Resources
Truman:
real or perceived shortages or declining living standards a source of conflict
and war
1948,
UNESCO founds International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Conference
in Lake Success, NY, 1949; first Red List of endangered species
1951:
Truman creates commission about resources
1952,
Resources for the Future established; funded by Ford Foundation; market-based
solutions
1955
conference: Mans Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, Princeton, New
Jersey
1957:
International Geophysical Year
Remarkable
precedent for international and interdisciplinary research about global
environment