CAPITALISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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CAPITALISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT
To help alleviate the detrimental environmental
effects of the (international) capitalist
economy, American and Canadian scientific experts
and Progressive conservationists attempted to
rally governmental and popular support for
treaties that would provide for sustainable
management of shared environmental resources.
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CONSERVATION MOVEMENT -- preservation -- managed
use
TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS or, The Fishermans
Problem -- common property resources
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US-CANADIAN CONSERVATION AGREEMENTS
1908 - Inland Fisheries Treaty
1916 - Migratory Bird Treaty
1911 - North Pacific Fur Seal Convention
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Lake Whitefish
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Strait of Juan de Fuca
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Great Lakes
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Passamaquoddy Bay
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Sir James Bryce
Elihu Root
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David Starr Jordan, U.S. IFC member
Canadian IFC members Samuel Bastedo E. E.
Prince
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ALASKA
RUSSIA
CANADA
Bering Sea
Pribilof Islands
Commander Islands
Northern Pacific Ocean (international waters)
Kuriles
JAPAN
FUR SEAL ROOKERIES ON THE BERING SEA
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Pelagic Sealing
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Passenger Pigeon
Audubon Society
Geer v. Connecticut (1896)
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Migratory Bird Treaty
Canadian appointee Dominion Entomologist Dr. C.
Gordon Hewitt
U.S. appointee Chief of U.S. Biological
Survey Dr. E. W. Nelson
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Missouri v. Holland (1920)
...a national interest of very nearly the first
magnitude is involved. -- Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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