Suburban development relocated environmental threats from distant wilderness to the suburban home itself

Evidence

The outraged language of Tupper owed much to the rhetoric of earlier preservation campaigns – for John Muir, to cite a famous example, the proponents of the Hetch Hetchy dam were “temple destroyers” – but the charge of rape also pointed in a new direction. The ravagers were not far away, building a massive structure in a valley of sacred beauty – they were next door, doing everyday work, and they threatened the well-being of families at home. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 570

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the ‘boomerang’ logic of the reader’s environmental law course and Eco-Justice: threats move from wild periphery into inhabited domestic space. — connects to: Builders destroyed the very natural features their subdivisions were named for — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 51; Suburban environmental concern, not just affluence or wilderness, fueled environmentalism — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 43; Postwar open-space loss converted conservation into a suburban problem and generated new causes — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 546 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Conservation concerns migrated from forests and farms into metropolitan areas #corroborates (0.85) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 1537
• Living in constructed urban environments severs people from ecological consequences #expands (0.80)
• Land-use legislation hearings centered on suburban homebuilding’s environmental damage #exemplifies (0.72) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 957