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7978 BCE
10000 Years Ago
Humans learned farming and sustainable agriculture (Textbook) -
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2000 Years Ago
Soil conservation practiced in China, India, and Peru (Britannica) -
Period: 1300 to 1500
14th to 16th Century
Pollution is blamed for spreading disease in Europe (Britannica) -
Early 1800s
Population growth causes more use of resources and more fuel being burnt for production of goods and services, land is cleared and nature becomes polluted (Textbook) -
Walden
Book by naturalist Henry David Thoreau (PBS) -
Marsh’s Man and Nature
Book by George Perkins (PBS) -
Yellowstone
National Park (PBS) -
John Muir
John Muir starts writing essays, articles and books about the Sierra Nevada (PBS) -
Romantics and Reformers
English romantics and reformers including John Ruskin, Octavia Hill and Edward Carpenter articulate ideas about saving nature and man from the Industrial Revolution (PBS) -
National Audubon Society
The National Audubon Society forms to save plume birds from ladies’ hatters -
Sequoia
National Park (PBS) -
Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is established by John Muir and others to defend Yosemite National Park (PBS) -
Gifford Pinchot
Philosophy of resource conservation was developed by Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service (PBS) -
Grand Canyon
National Park -
More National Parks
Sweden establishes 9 national parks -
Save the Redwoods
Save the Redwoods League begins buying the last old-growth redwood trees (PBS) -
Wilderness Society
The Wilderness Society is started by Aldo Leopold and others to preserve wilderness; and the National Wildlife Federation brings together hunters and fishermen (PBS) -
Pollution
Machines built and oil being used, technology added to agriculture, pesticides start being used, population rises to about 3 billion, waste production dramatically increases (Textbook) -
Ecologists Union
The Ecologists Union, later the Nature Conservancy, is started by scientists to acquire ecologically important reserves (PBS) -
Sand County Almanac
Book by Aldo Leopold (PBS) -
Effects and Preventions
Pollution starts affecting the world with global warming and ozone layer depletion, environmentalists rise up with scientific backgrounds (PBS) -
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Government Involvement
Government begins to form nature reserves and help the environment, movement begins to gain popularity (Textbook) -
World Wildlife Fund
The World Wildlife Fund is founded by Sir Julian Huxley, Dutch and British royals -
Silent Spring
Book by Rachel Carson that warns of devastation that pesticides -
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Lake Pedder and Franklin River
Campaigns in Tasmania in the 1970s and ’80s to block the flooding of Lake Pedder and the damming of the Franklin River (PBS) -
Greenpeace
Greenpeace founded (Textbook) -
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Three Mile Island and Chernobyl Protests
Protests in the United States and western Europe against nuclear power development, especially following the catastrophic accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl (PBS) -
Today
Research is being conducted to protect the environment (Textbook)