Environmentalism
and Economics
Nicholas McDonald
Early Environmentalism
 H. D. Thoreau (1854)
 Walden
 John Muir (1838 - 1914)
 Sierra Club
 Gifford Pinchot (1865 - 1946)
 US Forestry Service
The “Invisible Hand”
 Adam Smith (1776)
 The Wealth of Nations
 Father of modern economics.
Recycling
 Waste disposal and Recycling goals overseen by the
EPA
 Recycling legislation overseen by State and Municipal
legislators.
Contemporary
Environmentalism
 Paul Erlich (1968)
 The Population Bomb
 Greenpeace
 Earth First
 PETA
Questions?