chapter 32: regionalism and environmentalism
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Chapter 32: Regionalism and Environmentalism. Mary Holt. Governor Askew. Corporate income tax, moratorium on death penalty, racially integrate schools, blacks and women’s rights, & a prioritization of environmental protection Pushed for a new environmental agency (EPA) Relied on public - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 32: Regionalism and Environmentalism
Mary Holt
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Governor Askew• Corporate income tax, moratorium on death penalty, racially integrate schools, blacks and women’s rights, & a prioritization of environmental protection
• Pushed for a new environmental agency (EPA)
• Relied on public
• Richard Stone
• Letter gone public
• Conservationist of the Year
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• Dade county urbanized more than 60%
• Chloroform in the water
• Drought in Miami
• “One of the most important conferences in Florida”
• Too much or too little water
The Fall of Miami
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River of Grass• Areson – friend and activist
• Recommended replacing Flood Control District with regional water-management district
• Askew signed Florida Water Resources Act
• The Everglades could never be whole again
• Plume hunting era
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Shrinking Water Supply
• Walt Disney World
• 49% of fresh surface water lost, 51% impaired
• Developers making land from water
• Illegal dredging projects
• Tax on non-reusable containers
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Earth Day!
• April 22, 1970
• Protests, Parades, Cleanup rallies, Tree-planting campaigns
• Big Cypress Preserve – 25 hundred sq. miles of everglades
• Golden Gate Estates grew on western area of preserve
• Askew kept development off
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Land Sellers to Land Purchasers
• Douglas went to Tallahassee to lobby for the bill- $40 million
• Fire in Big Cypress resulted in $116.9 million
• Largest private land purchase in National Park history
• Indians, hunters, and oil companies could not be kept away
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Douglas, Jones & Marshall
• Douglas questioned Jones about hunting
• Partnership strengthened by Art Marshall
• Environmental problems of the everglades are no different that of urban area
• Growth is not unlimited, “the more people there are, the more artificially we have to live to sustain life”