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The Environmental Crisis: The Effects Of Ecology Courses On High School Students, Carol C. Fletcher
The Environmental Crisis: The Effects Of Ecology Courses On High School Students, Carol C. Fletcher
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It is a basic premise of this thesis that an environmental crisis exists in the world today and has been worsening at least since World War II. The crisis is evident in the population explosion, the deteriorating air and water quality, and the depletion of our natural resources. With the feeling that all persons must become aware, concerned, and involved with the environmental crisis if the trend is to be reversed, this study is concerned with one segment of the population – high school students.
Sociologists, and especially human ecologists, have not been concerned professionally with the environmental crisis, but …