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A 6 page paper discussing environmental abuses and concerns in Pittsburgh in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, using three chapters of “Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region.” The chapters discussed here provide valuable information on the course of events surrounding the decades-long controversies concerning Pittsburgh’s environment, but they overstep bounds in seeking to blame any of the causes we know of today. The results are the same, but seeking to point fingers rather than encouraging individuals to work for a common good is counterproductive and obscures lessons from the past that could be useful today. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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File: CC6_KSenvPitts.rtf
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extreme case, but the narratives provided in selected chapters of Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region illustrate the dedication to industry and the general lack of regard for its
consequences that characterized the entire American Industrial Revolution. Contributors authoring the three chapters considered here seem to believe that the owners of the means of production - to borrow
a Marxist phrase - were evil, heartless, soulless individuals bent on destroying every shred of the natural environment. Though it is obvious that
industrialists cared nothing for the environmental effects of their pursuits, the origin of that lack of caring most likely had far less to do with evil than it did plain
and simple ignorance. Pittsburghs Early Environmental History McElwaine (2003) describes conditions as they were when a few well-meaning citizens sought to look beyond
the economic value of Pittsburghs industry to see the aesthetic plane lying above industrialism and apparently out of sight of most of Pittsburghs residents. McElwaine (2003) states that by
the late 19th century, there was only a single section of land fronting the river that had not been appropriated by industry. That
industry would locate along a waterway is understandable and even forgivable for the time in which it occurred. Rivers were magical entities in those days: regardless of what was
dumped into them at any given place along their banks, clean, fresh water continued to rush past. When the immediate problem of disposal had been addressed (i.e., dumped into
the river), the matter no longer existed. It was not in the industrialists nature to question where effluent went or what effect it had on its final destination.
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