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A Swiss Chemist found that DDT was a useful pesticide.
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The Reader's Digest pronounced DDT one of the greatest discoveries during the war.
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Rachel Carson tried to spread word to the Digest about how DDT was harming animals and the environment, but she was rejected because people didn't want to hear about the bad stuff.
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Minimata disease; poisoning from methylmercury from food.
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Linked chemical industry with poisoning
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Stopped dumping mercury
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An EIA is a report before an change is made to an environment to predict what the environmental impact will be. They come from the National Environmental Policy Act from the US Government. It includes identifying impacts, predicting the scale of possible impacts, and limiting the effects of impacts to acceptable limits. A weakness is that different countries have different standards.
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The World Health Organization banned the use of DDT. In some countries it is needed to prevent malaria from mosquitoes, but it was banned because it was supposed to have an effect on birds of prey and their populations.
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The Montreal Protocol was an agreement signed by 197 countries to regulate CFC's to cut emissions down
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Water in Minamata Bay considered clean
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An international agreement that commits Parties in a period from the beginning of 2013 to the end of 2020 to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases
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First UNEP; issues related to mercury
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Minamata Convention is established
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COP1
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COP 2