Rampant pollution in urban centers contributed to "romantic" reactions against the Industrial Revolution, including establishing what became national parks.Native peoples in the US practiced intensive agriculture and forest clearing for centuries before Europeans arrived.The environmental history in the US is characterized by a strong, linear relationship from settling on "pristine land" in the 1600s; to intensely using resources in the 1700s and 1800s; to pollution and species loss beginning in the 1900s and continuously increasing into the 2000s.All environmental conditions are worse now than they have been at any point in US history.

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