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At first a nuclear winter seemed the clearest threat to the global environment, but this was gradually replaced by the prospect of climate change induced by greenhouse gases produced during the burning of fossil fuels. In , the National Academy of Sciences issued an uncertain report called Energy and Climate , and two years later, the World Meteorological Organization held its first World Climate Conference, but the evidence was still unclear.

By the end of the s, there was no longer any uncertainty. In , the United Nations Environmental Program established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which, two years later, released its first report, finding half a degree Celsius of net global warming during the twentieth century. These two decades also saw the development of a broad awareness of the need for a new collective relationship with the planet.

The first Earth Day in the United States was held in April ; from then on, as the scope and seriousness of the problem became clearer, a truly impressive and diverse movement for change grew at the grassroots of society. The Romantic approach to nature was fundamentally ecological; that is, it was concerned with relation, interdependence, and holism.

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Nowhere is this … outlook more clearly revealed than in the writings of Henry David Thoreau. In his life and work we find a … complex and sophisticated ecological philosophy. We find in Thoreau, too, a remarkable source of inspiration and guidance for the subversive activism of the recent ecology movement. This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Institutional subscriptions. Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF. Three valuable histories of the American environmental movement are. Google Scholar. Joseph Meeker, The Comedy of Survival: Studies in Literary Ecology New York: Scribner, anticipates almost the whole of the ecocritical project, but because he focuses on what he sees as the ecologism of the tradition of dramatic comedy rather than on nonfiction nature writing, he has received very little attention.