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human population hits 1 billion
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human population hits 2 billion
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human population hits 3 billion
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Rachel Carson
• Summary description: Silent Spring exposed the hazards of the pesticide of DDT in 1962. This questioned humanity’s faith in technological progress and helped set the stage for the environmental movement. DDT was a powerful pesticide the world has ever known. Unlike most pesticides who destroy one or two types of insects, DDT could kill hundreds of different kinds at once. -
human population hits 4 billion
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Stockholm Conference
• Summary description: In 1972 the United Nations conference on the human environment in Stockholm was the first world conference. The Stockholm Declaration, which contained 26 principles, placed environmental issues at the forefront of international concerns. -
endangered species act
• Summary description: December 28, 1973. This was to help protect fish, wildlife and plants that are listed as threatened or endangered species. This also helps plans for their recovery. -
Love Canal
Love Canal is a aborted canal project branching off the Niagara River, 4 miles south of Niagara Falls. From 1942-1953 The Hooker Chemical Company began using the drug canal as a chemical waste dump. The canal consists of around 21,000 tons of toxic chemicals. Public awareness of the disaster unfolded in the late 1970s when a newspaper coverage and grassroots door to door health surveys began -
Bhopal Disaster
• Summary description: In December 1985 more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas was leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Immediately killing 3,800 people and causing a significant morbidity and premature death for thousands more. The company involved in the terrible industrial accident, tried to dissociate itself from legal responsibility. Since the disaster, India have experienced rapid industrialization -
human population hits 5 billion
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Chernobyl meltdown
• Summary description: In 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union, the worst disaster of the nuclear power generation. The disaster happened on April 25 and 26 1986 when a technician at the reactor unit 4 attempted a unsafe designed experiment. At 1:23am on April 26 the chain reaction in the core went out of control -
montreal protocol
• Summary description: The Montreal protocol finalized in 1987, it’s a global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out production and consumption of the ozone depleting -
Minamata disaster
• Summary description: Minamata disease is a methylmercury poisoning that occurred in humans who ingested fish and shellfish, contaminated by methylmercury discharged in waste water from a chemical plant. 2,255 people have been diagnosed with this disease as of January 1993, 1,096 have died from this disease. This disease targets a humans nervous system. -
kyoto protocol
• Summary description: The Kyoto protocol operationalizes the united nations framework convention on climate change by committing industrialized countries and economies in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases. This was adopted on December 11, 1997 -
human population hits 6 billion
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documentary film an inconvenient truth released
• Summary description: American documentary film released in 2006, featuring the U.S. vice president Al Gore that formed the basis for his traveling -
human population hits 7 billion
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human population hits 8 billion