From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: karljohanson@shaw.ca   
   Subject: Re: Man Trap Notes   
      
   "Steven L."  wrote in message news:we-   
      
   > FYI, the environmental movement started with the book "Silent Spring" by    
   > Rachel Carson, in 1962.  It attacked the use of DDT, which Carson claimed    
   > was destroying the eggshells of birds.  The book was an instant    
   > best-seller.  I remember my mom couldn't stop talking about it.   
   >   
   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring   
      
   FYI, the environmental movement started before that.   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_movement   
      
   "The roots of the modern environmental movement can be traced to attempts in    
   nineteenth-century Europe and North America to expose the costs of    
   environmental negligence, notably disease, as well as widespread air and    
   water pollution, but only after the Second World War did a wider awareness    
   begin to emerge.   
      
   The US environmental movement emerged in the late nineteenth and early    
   twentieth century, with two key strands: protectionists such as John Muir    
   wanted land and nature set aside for its own sake, while conservationists    
   such as Gifford Pinchot wanted to manage natural resources for exploitation.    
   Among the early protectionists that stood out as leaders in the movement    
   were Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and George Perkins Marsh. Thoreau was    
   concerned about the wildlife in Massachusetts; he wrote Walden; or, Life in    
   the Woods as he studied the wildlife from a cabin. John Muir founded the    
   Sierra Club, one of the largest conservation organizations in the United    
   States. Marsh was influential with regards to the need for resource    
   conservation. Muir was instrumental in the creation of the world's first    
   national park at Yellowstone in 1872. ..."   
      
      
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