History of the Environmental Movement

By carleyhonish

  • Population- 1 billion

  • Population- 2 billion

  • Period: to

    Minamata

    The Minamata disease began to spread through Japan in 1932 and lasted for 30 years as the government would do nothing to prevent the contamination. Since then, governments have been more involved with the protection of our planet.

  • Founding of the ICUN

    The ICUN has become the the largest environmental network in the world. They raise awareness and participate in conservation projects that have helped to shape the environmental movement.

  • Population- 3 billion

  • Gaia Hypothesis

    James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis proposed that the Earth means so much to the universe. The Gaia Hypothesis effected the Environmental Movement because it expressed appreciation towards the planet and consists of many detailed ideas about the Earth.

  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

    This book was a huge factor of the start of the environmental movement in the United States. Rachel Carson writes about the man made pesticides that we inflict on the environment and the publication secured a nationwide phase-out of DDT.

  • The Club of Rome

    The Club of Rome works to better the environment and published The Limits to Growth. The Club of Rome is a part of the environmental movement and has been great in helping to change the world.

  • The Clean Air Act

    The Clean Air Act was established in 1970 to regulate emissions and protect people from hazardous pollutants. The Environmental Movement was effected because not only were people being protected but so was their environment.

  • Stockholm Conference

    The Stockholm Conference is also called the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. It marked a significant step towards the development of environmental politics.

  • Population- 4 billion

  • Whaling

    The Save the Whales campaign led to global awareness of whaling in hopes of banning commercial whaling.

  • Our Common Future

    This document created by the UN has influenced the Environmental Movement as it is a report filled with potential strategies that might get rid of environmental issues through cooperation of different nations.

  • Bohpal

    In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an accident at a pesticide plant released around 30 tons of toxins into the air. 30 years later, it still remains. It effected the Environmental Movement as awareness was increased.

  • Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

    In 1985 French agents planted a bomb in the ship, sinking it. In 1995, the Rainbow Warrior II was sent to protest French nuclear testing.

  • Chernobyl

    A Ukrainian nuclear disaster that released large amounts of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere. An exclusion zone was created from the accident where environmentalists and scientists hoped humans would stay away from due to the abundance of wildlife that lived there.

  • Population- 5 billion

  • Pollution Prevention Act

    The Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 was created with the goals to reduce pollution in the United States. It is a part of the Environmental Movement because it has been successful in increasing efficiency of energy, water and other natural resources without pollution.

  • UN Earth Summit

    The UN Earth Summit that met in Rio de Jenairo Brazil in 1992 influenced the environmental movement because the outcome of the meeting was the creation of Agenda 21.

  • Agenda 21

    Agenda 21 is a plan of action with regard to sustainable development. It is a part of the environmental movement because they are taking action in many areas where humans impact the environment.

  • Kyoto

    The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997 to prevent dangerous interference from humans with the climate system. It affected the Environmental Movement by engaging and influencing industrialized countries to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

  • Population- 6 billion

  • Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development

    This Summit took action toward sustainable development and conserving natural resources for a better environment.

  • An Inconvenient Truth

    Al Gore's documentary that about global warming was a wake up call to people all around the world. After the release, the climate movement has expanded greatly.

  • Copenhagen (COP-15)

    The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference has influenced the Environmental Movement because it raised climate change policies to the highest political level.

  • Population- 7 billion