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10,000 BCE
Neolithic agricultural revolution
This was significant to the modern environmental movement since it was the point in time were land productivity, settlements and local resource management began. -
Industrial revolution in Europe
This was the start point of the highly increment of pollution, Urbanization and unsustainable natural resource use. It was the point in time where scientists would like to come back in terms of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. -
Green Revolution-intensive technological agriculture
This Landmark was the start of the use of technology in agriculture that lead to the rise of human population and the resource use of fossil fuel and pollution increased. -
UK’s ten National Parks are established
People started to realize how important it was to conserve the natural areas to have a mayor natural beauty and wildlife but also to develop social community areas and have more natural resources. -
NGOs gain greater following
This is the period when the Non governmental organizations started to be created, such as WWF,Greenpeace, TNC, CI… etc, this helped to grow and raise the public awareness in different sectors of the world. -
C.I.T.I.E.S. formed by IUCN
This is a convention that protects endangered species from international trade not allowing any type of commercial trade on plants or animals at risk since they are close to suffer an enormous decline in number or complete extermination which will then damage the modern environment modifying the current food chain and order in nature. -
Bhopal disaster
This was the world’s worst industrial disaster, A pesticide suddenly was released contaminating people and natural resources such as water than then kept spreading diseases and death all over the human kind and the wildlife, nowdays it still affects living beings with its toxic substances making it a huge tragedy. -
Chernobyl Disaster
This was the world's worst nuclear power accident; it occurs at a plant in Ukraine due to radiation; provocating thousands of human deaths and creating mutations, in the other hand, scientist, 35 years later, showed that the event has developed some improvements in some species of flora and fauna. -
Green awareness strengthens
The popularity increase of friendly products, recycling and ecotourism due come organizations like UNESCO, helping us conserve energy, have healthier lives with better quality and minimize the pollution around the world. -
Kyoto Protocol becomes a legal requirement
Where some countries signed up to reduce carbon emissions which also improved the economy worldwide promoting environmentally friendly investments that will more likely develop countries into more cleaner ones reducing deforestation. -
Film “An inconvenient truth” release
It was a documentary film about global warming was release which cause a great impact on the population by increasing awareness about animal endanger due global warming which then provocateur more groups and protest to form trying to prevent this disaster from keep going, however now a days global warming is something that stills develops through the years in good and bad ways.
