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Black death
This outbreak killed nearly 50 million people, more than half of the population of Europe, but this plague brought labor shortages which benefited low class workers who improved their economic and social mobility. -
Industrial revolution
Many technological, socioeconomic and cultural changes were created for solutions to problems and this was largely confined to Britain. These new technologies created quite a bit of waste, which led to the beginning of the environmental movement. -
Population increase
The pop first reached 1 billion in 1804 during the industrial revolution. It than went to 2 billion in 1927 than 3 billion to 1960. In 1974 it increased to 4 billion, than in 1987 it hit 5 billion. In quickly increased to 6 billion in 1999. -
Founding of IUCN
It was founded in Fontainebleau, France, when representatives signed a formal act constituting the International Union for the Protection of Nature. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is an international organization designed for working in sustaining the use of natural resources and nature conservation. Its main purpose is to inform people on how any use of natural resources is ecologically stable. -
The great smog in london
London's energy consumption broke all records, with energy often being produced by burning coal. Because of this, the air was saturated with pollutants, and the city itself was enveloped in a haze of fog. -
Minamata
This disease was cause because of the contamination of shellfish and fish. This was primarily cause by a mercury discharge from a factory nearby. This caused worldwide concerns, which eventually lead to the development of the environmental movement. -
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Published
This book documented the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. The book brought environmental concerns to the American public, with in turn infuriated chemical companies. This eventually led to a ban on DDT for agricultural uses and helped to inspire an environmental movement that eventually created the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -
Clean air act
The Clean Air Act was the first federal legislation regarding air pollution control. A federal program by the U.S. Public Health Service was created to help monitor air pollution and keep it under control. Techniques were also researched to help minimize air pollution. -
Santa Barbara Oil Spill
An estimated 3 million gallons of crude oil spilled off the coast of California. The Union Oil company created an oil casing that was too small to contain all the oil and as a result there was an explosion. The oil spilled into the ocean at 1,000 gallons per hour for a month before it was stopped. -
The first earth day
U.S. Senator Gaylord hired Denis Hayes to recruit college students for an environmental movement. 20 million people ended up joining, which makes this the largest demonstration in U.S. history. They fought for the planet and protested injustices caused by the government. DDT, which is a harmful pesticide, was banned, and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) was created. -
Gaia hypothesis
This proposes that all organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth are closely integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system, maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. It includes regulation of the salinity in the oceans, regulation of oxygen in the atmosphere, regulation of the global surface temperature, etc. -
Italys seveso dixion cloud
dioxin cloud from an accident at a chemical plant near Seveso, Italy, damaged approximately 2000 people and caused thousands of animals to be killed because the poison would spread into the food chain and kill even more people. Five employees on the plant were convicted and company paid nearly 13 million dollars in compensation. -
Bhopal
This was a catastrophic gas leak that occurred at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide production plant in Bhopal, India. The gas leak was the release of 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas MIC from failed holding tanks used in the manufacturing of pesticide chemicals. -
Save the whales
A moratorium was put in place to halt commercial whaling, to help the dwindling whale populations recover. Twenty-five years later however, Japan Iceland, and Norway all continued to hunt whales. Authorities turned away from the slaughter of these whales. In turn making the whales population having a chance to never recover. -
Chernobyl
The Chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear mishap that occurred within the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat within the north of the Ukrainian SSR. Cost $235 billion to “fix” the Chernobyl disaster. -
Kyoto
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted in Kyoto, Japan. The rules and requirements for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol were further elaborated in a package of decisions called the Marrakesh Accords. It is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -
An Inconvenient Truth released.
It is a movie that makes a compelling case that global warming is genuine, man-made, and its impacts will be “cataclysmic” if we don’t act now. Gore presents a wide cluster of actualities and data in a mindful and compelling way. -
BP oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig, located far out in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded into flames, killing 11 workers and injuring several others. The rig sank two days later, causing a petroleum leak that would gush out of control for nearly three months. According to the U.S. government, around 4.2 million barrels of oil ultimately escaped, contaminating at least 43,300 square miles of ocean and 1,300 miles of shoreline from Texas to Florida. It killed thousands of birds, sea turtles and dolphins. -
Aral sea disaster
The rapid development of agricultural activity led first to the division of the Aral Sea into 2 parts, one of which had already dried up, and the second remained to exist for several years. Soviet irrigation projects diverted several of its source waterways; the Aral has shrunk 90%. -
Population increased to 7 billion
Since there is more modern technology and modern medicine the population increased greatly. So in 2012 it finally increased to 7 billion.