Fairfield Osborn

Henry Fairfield Osborn jr.

Unsere ausgeplünderte Erde 

 

1948: Our Plundered Planet

1953: The Limits of Earth

1964: Our Crowed Planet

 

en.wikipedia  Autor  *1887
in Princeton bis 1969 (82)

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Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr.

"The Bible of Ecology today" 

1948 in USA

1950 auf deutsch

Wikipedia Vater (1857-1935) senior

 

 

en.wikipedia  Our_Plundered_Planet 

Our Plundered Planet is a book published in 1948 that was written by Fairfield Osborn about environmental destruction by humankind.

With a focus on soil, the book is a critique of humankind's poor stewardship of Earth.

It typifies the earliest apocalyptic environmental literature, in which human beings are seen as destroyers of the natural world.

Our Plundered Planet, along with William Vogt’s Road to Survival, also published in 1948, launched a Malthusian revival in the post-WWII era, and would inspire Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb among many others.[2]

Influences

In writing this book, Osborn was influenced by Guy I. Burch and Elmer Pendell’s overpopulation tract Population Roads to Peace or War (1945) and Paul Sears’ analysis of dust bowls in Deserts on the March (1935).

He had also been influenced by various "New Deal" initiatives in the public planning of land use and restoration, such as the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Civilian Conservation Corps and various policies to address the “dust bowls” of the time.

Osborn, as well as his famous father, Henry Fairfield Osborn, was also heavily influenced by the eugenics movement prior to the war.

 

Klappentext zu Plundered Planet:

Die Bevölkerung der Erde ist heute bereits auf über 2 ¼ Milliarden angeschwollen; die Bevölkerung Europas hat sich trotz Weltkriegen und Revolutionen in 150 Jahren verdreifacht. Kann die Ernährung dieser gewaltigen Massen, die nach den Berechnungen der Statistiker in absehbarer Zeit 3 Milliarden betragen werden, einigermaßen gesichert werden?

Das ist die Frage, die der bekannte amerikanische Zoologe F. Osborn in seinem Buch, das in den Vereinigten Staaten großes Aufsehen erregt hat, zu beantworten sucht. Er tut das nicht mit Hilfe einer abstrakten Statistik, sondern zeigt in lebendiger Weise, wie der Mensch abhängig ist von dem biologischen Gleichgewicht seiner Umwelt und wie gerade er dieses Gleichgewicht durch ständige Eingriffe stört. 

Nicht auf eine Erschöpfung der Völker, die Träger der früheren Hochkulturen gewesen sind, ist ihr Untergang zurückzuführen — das ist das Ergebnis des Buches — sondern darauf, daß diese Völker die Urquelle der Kultur, die Fruchtbarkeit ihres Landes, zugrunde gerichtet haben.

Auch heute, so tönt der Warnruf Osborns, wird ununterbrochen und unwider­ruflich hochwertiges Nutzland in Wüste verwandelt. Die Zentren früherer Gesittung liegen jetzt verschüttet in der Wüste, und auch der westlichen Kultur droht, ungeachtet ihrer wissen­schaftlichen und technischen Höhe, ein gleiches Schicksal, wenn sie nicht beizeiten einhält. 

Der Kampf gegen die Bodenzerstörung hat in den USA und in Rußland eingesetzt; aber wird er Erfolg haben, wenn so viele wertvolle Kräfte auf die Austragung des politischen Macht­streits verwendet werden? 

Die erste Aufgabe der Menschheit ist es, sich ihre Lebensquellen zu erhalten! Sie ist um so dringender, je mehr die Bevölkerungs­zahlen anschwellen. Jedermann sollte sich über die Gefahren unterrichten und über die Mittel, ihr entgegenzutreten, wie sie Osborn zeigt.

 

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Osborn, Fairfield, Jr.   (United States 1887-1969)  
conservation, natural history 

  wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/OSBO1887.htm  

 

Fairfield Osborn was well into a successful business career when he began to involve himself in the affairs of the New York Zoological Society in the early 1920s. By 1940 Osborn was its president, and over the next nearly thirty years he both raised the visibility of the NYZS's primary ongoing project, the Bronx Zoo, and as an individual emerged as one of the planet's leading conservationists. His influence in that arena was felt in the private sector, in his participation in the agendas of NGOs and governments, and as a best-selling author. 1948's Our Plundered Planet, in particular, stands as one of the most memorable pro-environment statements of the middle of the twentieth century.

Life Chronology

--born in Princeton, New Jersey, on 15 January 1887.
--1909: A.B., Princeton University
--1909-1910: graduate study in biology, Cambridge University
--1915-1917: made treasurer of Union Oil Company
--1917-1919: serves in the U. S. Army during World War I
--1919-1935: partner, Redmond and Company (investment bankers)
--1923-1935: trustee and member of the executive board of the New York Zoological Society
--1935: retires from business
--1935-1940: secretary and board member of the New York Zoological Society
--1940-1969: president and board member of the New York Zoological Society
--1948: helps establish Jackson Hole Wildlife Park in Wyoming
--1948: publishes his Our Plundered Planet (National Education Association names it the outstanding book of the year)
--1948-1961: co-founder and first president of the Conservation Foundation
--1950-1957: member of the conservation advisory committee of the Department of the Interior
--1953: publishes his The Limits of the Earth
--1955: honorary D.Sc., New York University
--1957: honorary D.Sc., Princeton University
--1965: helps establish the Institute for Research in Animal Behavior
--1966: receives the New York Zoological Society's gold medal
--dies at New York City, on 16 September 1969.

For Additional Information, See:

--Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Eight (1988).
--Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists (1997).
--National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 62 (1984).
--American National Biography, Vol. 16 (1999).

Henry Fairfield Osborn was an American naturalist, notable for his involvement in and contribution to many environmental organizations.

Osborn was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1887. He attended both Princeton and Cambridge Universities, after which he worked in a variety of jobs, including as a soldier in World War I.

Having followed his paleontologist father on archeological digs, however, Osborn became interested in science as a career. He soon became secretary of the New York Zoological Society and went on to serve for many years as its president. He also worked to support the creation of the Marine Aquarium at Coney Island, New Jersey, and the upkeep of the Bronx Zoological Park. Concerned for endangered species, in 1947 Osborn also founded the Conservation Foundation, an adjunct to the New York Zoological Society and later part of the World Wildlife Fund.

Osborn took his environmentalism to Washington, D.C. He served on the Conservation Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of the Interior and on the Planning Committee of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Osborn was also concerned about the effect of population growth on the supply of natural resources, and he worked for solutions to this problem. He wrote two books, Our Plundered Planet (1948), and The Limits of the Earth (1953). He was a member of many other environmental organizations including the Save-the-Redwoods League and the International Council for Bird Preservation. 

Henry Osborn died in 1968.

 

 

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Google Limits Earth  

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The Limits of the Earth

1953

Die Grenzen der Erde

 

 

Our Crowded Planet 

1964

Unser überfüllter Planet

 

 

 

 

 

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