Question

What events influenced the growth of the environmental movement in the United States?

Why did the environmental movement attract many of the same people who had participated in other movements?
Do you think the environmental movement has had a positive or negative effect on the United States?

Answer 1

The events that influenced it were smog, acid rain, and toxic waste that created cancer and birth defects. Also, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. It attracted the same people because they all wanted change. Positive, it got more acts and laws to ensure that the environment stays clean.

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Answer 2

Events roofed include the properties that DDT had on the environment and the Cuyahoga river in Ohio catching fire because it was so polluted.

In 1969, the crew of a Japanese fishing vessel near Bikini Atoll were exposed to enormous doses of radiation from the outcome of an H-Bomb test.

The anxiety over the environment went on way before that, though. I think that it attracted people from other movements, like anti-nuke and people concerned over industrial waste, etc., because the environment trapped all of that under one umbrella that united them in a common cause. In short, it was better to stand together than in smaller groups

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