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Human population reached 1 billion
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Human population reached 2 billion
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Minamata disaster
Summary description: Minamata disease is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning. It happened because due to dumping chemicals into the water, and caused deaths and many injuries. -
Human population reached 3 billion
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Published
Summary description: Rachel Carson exposed hazards of the pesticide of DDT and helped stage environment movement. The hazards and the ddt of damaging birds and animal population. -
Stockholm Conference
Summary description: united nations conference on the human environment in stock holm was the first world conference to make the environment a major issue. They declared 26 principles placed environmental issues at the forefront, and the categories recommendations. -
Endangered Species Act
Summary description: The endangered species act established protection for fish, wildlife and plants. The law federal agencies to ensure that actions they authorize fund and carry out, and protect. -
Human population reached 4 billion
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Love Canal
Summary description: Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls ,New York, United States. landfill that became the site of an environmental disaster Decades of dumping toxic chemicals killed residents and harmed the health of hundreds. -
Bhopal disaster
Summary description: The Bhopal or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night 2-3 December.3,787 victims killed UCC had to pay to 470 million to settle the litigation. -
Chernobyl meltdown
Summary description: Reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine it was one of the two nuclear energy accidents. The other nuclear bomb is Fukushima nuclear accident It remains the worst nuclear disaster in history and the costliest disaster in human history it costed the us 700 billon. -
Human population reached 5 billion
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Montreal Protocol
Summary description: The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. the production and consumption of nearly 100 man-made chemicals referred to as ozone depleting substances. -
Kyoto protocol
Summary description: The Kyoto Protocol was adopted as the first addition to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In long-term effects of global warming would include a general rise in sea level around the world, resulting in the inundation of low-lying coastal areas and the possible disappearance of some island states. -
Human population reached 6 billion
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The documentary film An Inconvenient Truth released.
Summary description: In Los Angeles at a small theater there was a global warning of the greenhouse gas effect. There started to be early signs of changing conditions in
the artic Inconvenient Truth won Academy Awards in 2006 for best feature-length documentary -
Human population reached 7 billion
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Human population reached 8 billion