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Population1 Billion
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population 2 billion
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Love Canal
a dream neighborhood that they wanted built but it ended up being on top of a chemical deposit and became public in. -
Minamata disaster
Minamata was a disease that is from methylmercury poisoning that started when a chemical plant dumped MeHg into the ocean where fish and shellfish got contaminated and infected people who ingested the fish. -
population 3 billion
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Published
Sparked peoples interest in the effect of pesticides (DDT) on the environment and its effects on animals. It also sparked the modern studies on pesticides. -
Stockholm Conference
It was a conference based on the human Environment under all the United Nations and they spoke about international environmental issues. -
Endangered Species Act
The endangered species act ensures protection over fish, wildlife and plants that are on the threatened or endangered species list to help them repopulate and recover from the loss in the species. -
Population 4 billion
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Bhopal disaster
A leak of more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India that immediately killed 3,800 people and had lasting effects that led to the early deaths of many more people. -
Chernobyl meltdown
The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was a result of a flawed reactor design that exploded and left 5% of the radioactive core in the environment in Europe. -
population 5 billion
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Montreal Protocol
An agreement between the nations to have a goal too protect the O-zone layer and stop releasing and making O-zone depleting substances. -
Kyoto protocol
An international meeting that made countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -
population 6 billion
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Documentary film An Inconvenient Truth released
a movie about former vice president Al Gores that educated people about global warming. -
population 7 billion
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population 8 billion