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Bernardo Razzimazi
-Dates: 1633
-Was an italian physician
- Used the Cinchona plant to treat malaria. -
Industrial Revolution
-Dates: 1750 to 1850
- Thought as the start of major pollution
- Factories started to emit twice to three more times of waste. -
Thomas Malthus
-Dates: 14 february 1776 to 29 december 1893
- A famous english scholar that thought that the dangers of population growth would preclude endless progress towards a utopian society.
-Malthus also placed the longer-term stability of the economy above short-term expediency. -
General Motors
-Dates: 1897 to 1923 (begining of Ethyl corp)
- made engines that ran on unleaded gasoline.
- Gave safe answers to the eco-consious. -
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Civilian Conservation Corps
-Dates: operated from 1933 to 1942
- During the time of the CCC, volunteers planted nearly 3 billion trees to help reforest America.
- During the time of the CCC, volunteers constructed more than 800 parks nationwide and upgraded most state parks. -
Agricultural Revolution
-Dates:1960
- The plow was invented which made it easier to make crops.
-Increase in agricultural productivity and improvements in farm technology. -
Tragedy of the Commons
-Dates: first published in 1968.
-Discussed how the human race is taking up most natural resources.
-Discussed human overpopulation and how it has an effect on the environment. -
Rainbow Warrior
-Dates: acquired by Greenpeace in 1978, Sunk by the French intelligence service on 10 July 1985.
- Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship.
- the French foreign intelligence aimed to sink the to prevent her from interfering in nuclear tests . -
Chernobyl
-Dates: Chernobyl
-The radioactive contamination of aquatic systems therefore became a major problem in the immediate aftermath of the accident.
-In small closed lakes in Belarus and the Bryansk region of Russia, concentrations in a number of fish species varied from 100 to 60,000 Bq/kg during the period 1990–92. -
Exxon Valdez
-Dates: March 24, 1989
-Exxon Valdez is an oil tanker that spilled hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska.
- At the time it ran aground, the vessel was carrying about 201,000 m³ (53.1 million gallons) of oil. -
Persian Gulf War
-Dates: August 1990 – 28 February 1991
- The Persian Gulf War created the gulf war oil spill witch killed millions upon millions of wild life.
- The oil reached a maximum size of 101 miles (160 km) by 42 miles (68 km) and was 5 inches (13 cm) thick in some areas. -
China’s three gorges dam
-Dates: started in 1992 completed in 2012
-Landslides in Huangtupo had been exacerbated by changes in water levels in the reservoir.
-The number of "geological hazards" had risen 70 percent since water levels in the reservoir reached a maximum of 175 meters (574 ft). -
Hurricane Katrina
-Dates:2005
-Significant amounts of industrial waste and raw sewage spilled directly into New Orleans neighborhoods.
- And oil spills from offshore rigs, coastal refineries, and even corner gas stations have also made their way into residential areas and business districts throughout the region. -
An inconvenient truth
-Dates: 2006
-About former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming.
- An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and reenergizing the environmental movement. -
Bp Gulf Oil Spill
-Dates:2010
-an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months.
-The spill caused extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats and to the Gulf's fishing and tourism industries. -
World War II
-Dates: 1939 to 1945
- introduced the idea of total war where armies would destroy all shelter and reaources of enemies.
- The atomic bombs made certain areas become irradiated in Japan.