Dolores Greenberg, Jonathan Howes, Martin Melosi, and William Tucker discuss environmental conservation from historical and mid-1980s viewpoints. Among the questions: What roles should private citizens, as well as federal, state, and local governments, play toward the establishment of a national environmental consensus? Is such agreement possible? The speakers address the evolution of and continuing change in policies and attitudes toward resource exploitation, sustainability, and conservation; the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and President Ronald Reagan’s policies.
At the time of this recording, Greenberg was director of Energy Policy Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Howes was director of the Urban Studies Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Melosi, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1982-83), was professor of history at Texas A&M University. Tucker, the author of Progress and Privilege: America in the Age of Environmentalism, was a freelance journalist.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
