Environmental Protection in America: Resources

We asked our panelists to provide us with links pertinent to their talks, and additionally gathered material from our audience in the webinar chat. We have organized these materials by topic and provide links to them all here.

REFERENCED WORKS FROM OUR PANELISTS

John McNeill:

The Great Acceleration, Harvard University Press
The Webs of Humankind, W.W. Norton & Company
Something New Under the Sun, W.W. Norton & Company
Buying tTime for a Tough Transition, Nat Sustain

Naomi Oreskes:

“Climate Change and the Clean Air Act of 1970 Part I: the Scientific Basis,” Ecology Law Quarterly.
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Why Trust Science? Princeton University Press
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, Bloomsbury Publishing

Sharon Tisher:

Full A Climate Chronology, University of Maine
A Climate Chronology from 2025 on
Eleven Trump Administration Strategies to Attack Science Generally, and Environmental Law and Policy

ENVIRONMENTAL TERMS

What is the Anthropocene and why does it matter? Natural History Museum

The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi, Beacon Press

The Great Unraveling, Post Carbon Institute

Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned, Carbon Brief

ACTIVISM OF THE 1970S

How the largest environmental movement in history was born, BBC

Environmentalism’s Less-Partisan Past, Yale Climate Change Communication

From Naomi Oreskes: FIFRA is the most important statute most people have never heard of. Right now Trump administration is trying to gut it, to defend glyphosate: