Environmental Movement (1 results)

A group of eighteen characterful badge pins representative of the late 20th century environmental movement and tackling a variety of topics, including nuclear waste, overpopulation, landfill, air pollution, and salmon farming. It includes a pin for attendees of Earth Day 1990, a badge bearing the Ecology Flag, and an example from the Ehrlich-inspired Zero Population Growth movement. Pinback buttons such as these "were a key part of demonstrating membership in the wide array of environmental groups active from the 1960s to the 1980s" (Sheumaker, p. 198). Prior to 1982, when plastic coatings were introduced to badges, images were printed directly onto metal sheets, and the rise in amateur production of badges began in 1971, when the Badge-A-Minit corporation began selling their badge press to local and regional groups. The badges, which are predominately in English but with a few in German and Hebrew, read: 1. Pollution is a Time Bomb. 2. Love is Beautiful, Overpopulation Isn't. Zero Population Growth. 3. Don't Trash Science: Save Coho Salmon. 4. Our Water, Our Life: No DAPL. 5. Clean Water. 6. Gasp.! [Image referencing air pollution.] 7. No Deposit No Return!! [Image showing the Statue of Liberty is submerged in a landfill site.] 8. No Nukes under the sun. 9. Johnny Appleseed Was Right. 10. [In Hebrew:] Nuclear power? No thanks. 11. [No lettering; image shows an anthropomorphic oil well as the Grim Reaper, produced using a Badge-A-Minit.] 12. Shut Down. [Image referencing nuclear power plants.] 13. SP[OIL]S. 14. Earth Day 1990. [Manufactured by Pinpoint, NY.] 15. What you environmentalists have got to understand is the destruction of the planet may be the price we have to pay for a healthy economy! [Features a cartoon from the San Francisco Chronicle dated 23 February 1992.] 16. 5. [Image of a hand holding a leaf.] 17. [No lettering; features the Ecology Flag, a cultural symbol used primarily in the 1970s by American environmentalists, incorporating theta into its design (taking the letters "e" and "o" from "environment" and "organism"); this badge produced by Votes Unlimited, Ferndale NY.] 18. Wer stoppt die Atomkonzerne? Die Linke. Merkel und Co. spalten das Land. [A 21st-century example.] Helen Sheumaker, Artifacts from Modern America, Santa Barbara, Greenwood, 2017. Together 18 items. Overall in excellent condition, colours bright and unfaded, versos somewhat tarnished.