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minamata disaster
on May of 1956 the Minamata disaster was caused by high level of chemical waste being dumped into the bay near to the plant that contained the chemical of MeHg or methylmercury it can cause sensors problems and ataxia and dysarthria. When people are exposed for long periods of times to this substance it can kill and can cause a fetus to be poisoned.
It had cause awareness of how dangerous it can be to sea life and human life if chemicals are dumped into the water. -
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"Silent Spring"
on September 27 of 1962 the book silent spring us published as a was to spread awareness of how chemicals like DDT and other pesticides that were mixed with fuel oil could cause the death of animals that normal keep insects in check due to the constriction of DDT in the bodies of the avian like creatures. The book silent spring had caused awareness that overuse of pesticides could be more harmful that good. -
Stockholm Conference
on June 5 to the 16th 1972 the Stockholm was put into session to make the world more aware about environment and the affect that humans have on it. End of the meetings had made people and world governments branch off to more instructions that were for betterment of the environment. -
endangered species act
the endangered species act was put in place on 1973 as a way to rase awareness to the populations of species that we had ether drove to extinction or near extinction through years of unregulated hunting and polluting of their natural habits. The endangered species act -
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Love Canal
in January 1979 due to the land that the love canal was built over had been an land fill for chemical waste that had been dump and buried into the ground had caused the land around the canal to die and caused death in infants and birth defects. The effects of the disasters were wide spread by companies like the one that had dumped into the canal cause they were unregulated and had caused them to be more regulated -
Bhopal disaster
on December 3, 1984, 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing over 3,800 people and death later for thousands more to die. The effect of the plant releasing 40 tones of methyl into the land had caused limited resection of industrial growth that would cause harm to the land and people. -
Chernobyl meltdown
in 1986 one of Chernobyl's reactors 4 had begun to entered meltdown due to an experiment that was being done on the reactors in which the safety controls were turned off and the main was also turned off. The aftermath of the Chernobyl meltdown had caused a massive clean up in the environment that had made most off the soviet people to be more dissolution in the soviet. -
Montreal protocol
the Montreal protocol was the most widely known treaty on global pollutants and was to stop the hole in the ozone from growing. The aftermath of the Montreal protocol was the ozone hole repairing itself. -
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Kyoto protocol
on December 1997 the Kyoto protocol was a treaty to reduce the amount of pollution caused by greenhouse gases and was signed by 51 countries and in the EU the were down on pollution by 5.2 percent from 1990. The Kyoto protocol had reduced pollution for a time until more growth of the industry. -
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An Inconvenient Truth
in 2006 the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” was a movie that was backed by science made to make people more aware about how humans affect the environment and climate. The movie was backed by a vice president and had caused more people to listen more then what they normal do on the climate. -
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