Popular Environmental Perceptions
Posted in Environment on Aug 12th, 2008
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Daily Archive for August 12th, 2008
The World is Too Much with Us
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on Aug 12th, 2008
William Wordsworth penned the following sonnet in 1807 to contrast the increasingly materialistic world with the Natural world that individuals seem to have been losing their awe of. The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We […]
What Has Happened to Air Pollution Since 1970?
Posted in Environment, Standards of Living on Aug 12th, 2008
It should be recognized that the American environment, on the whole, is much cleaner than most places around the world. Certainly the environmental destruction revealed by the unveiling of the iron curtain dispelled any notions that love and central planning are better for the environment than commercial society. However, I don’t want to argue the […]
