美国现代环保运动的兴起及其影响

The Rise of Modern American Environmental Movement and Its Influences

战后兴起的美国现代环保运动,是19世纪末以来资源和荒野保护运动的继续与发展。除了对早期的自然资源和荒野保护继续给予关注外,它以生态学为理论武器,强调环境污染对人体健康的危害。美国现代环保运动的兴起,与战后美国消费社会的形成和各种社会运动的推动有密切的关系。在现代环保运动的影响下,公众的生态环保意识明显增强,美国各级政府、国际社会及学术界,都开始对环境问题作出积极反应。

The modern American environmental movement in the postwar years is virtually the continuation and development of the Conservation and Preservation of the late 19th century. Appealing to the science of ecology as a theoretical backup, it, besides its early concerns about the protection of natural resources and wild lives, focuses on the risk of the pollution to human health. The rise of this movement on a modern phase is closely linked with the formation of consumer society and the pushes of various postwar social movements. Promoted by the modem American environmental movement, environmental concern has increasingly become popular among the general public, and the environmental issues are paid much attention to by the different levels of the government, the international society and academic circles.