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First Billion People
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Second Billion People
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Clean Water Act
-regulates discharges of pollutants into the waters
-has implements many acts about pollution in the waters -
Founding of IUNC
-brought together government and civil society organisms within a shared goal to protect nature
-IUCN has made lots of developments to help the society and protect nature
-also have partnered with tons of government agencies to make sure nature is protected -
Minamata
-methylmercury poisoning occurred when people ate fish and shellfish from the contaminated MeHg water from the chemical plant
-Minamata waters had high levels of MeHg which caused a variety of brain damages -
Third Billion People
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Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"
-true story based on DDT impacting wildlife badly
-tells about how much damage the wildlife has undergone and how huhmans need to act on it now -
The Club of Rome
-address multiple crises facing humanity and the planet
-group of people who go around the world and inform/help people understand what they can to do to help the planet -
Gaia Hypothesis
-Earth’s surface is maintained in a habitable state by self-regulating feedback mechanisms
- living organisms on the planet interact with their surrounding environment -
Stockholm Conference (June 5-14, 1972)
-first conference to make the environment a major issue
-discussed what human can do to help the environment and what is happening with the environment -
Fourth Billion People
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CERCLA
-Created tax on chemical and petroleum industries
-Made sure that the industries didn’t produce too many chemicals and petroleum -
Bhopal
-a union Carbide pesticide plant released tons of methyl isocyanate gas into the air
-resulting in over 16000 deaths and many blinded -
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
-French spies bombed the ship
-the french denied bombing and later Britain found out that the president of France agreed
-president said he would not bomb anymore, months later resumed bombing and the rainbow warriors began to protest -
Chernobyl
-happened due to flawed design by personnel
-released radioactive gasses causing acute radiation syndrome and thyroid cancer -
Fifth Billion People
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Our Common Future
-reports on the environment changes of the year
- renamed to the world commission on the environment -
Exxon Valdez oil spill on coral reef
-oil spill by Exxon and was the worst oil spill in history
-covered 1300 miles of water and killed hundreds to thousands of animals -
UN Earth (Rio) Summit (June 3-14, 1992)
-was a conference with the most world leaders
-about the pursuit of economic development in ways to protect Earth’s environment and nonrenewable resources -
Whaling (save the whales)
-goal is to preserve and protect the whales by going to local places and handing out information about the whaling incidents -
Sixth Billion People
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Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (August 29-September 4, 2002 )
-conference about how we can achieve respect for the environment
-provisions on many environmental disasters such as, Kyoto and reducing Greenhouse gasses -
An Inconvenient Truth
-how global warming works and how we need to act now before it gets any worse and is too late -
Energy independence and security act
-goal is to reduce energy and replace it with clean renewable resources -
Seventh Billion People
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Kyoto
-happened because Shinji accused them of stealing a novel he wrote
-bought 33 gallons of gasoline and set animation studio to fire
-had mental illnesses and was known for things like this -
7.6 Billion People