Timeline

  • populations change

    2 Billion reached in 1927
  • The Dust Bowl

    The dust bowl was a time that destroyed the environment and the local agriculture it was also caused by droughts and human factors they did not do right farm methods to prepare for the storms. There were 3 waves of droughts 1934, 1936, and 1940.
  • Minamata Disaster

    The Minamata Bay disaster was a big event that took place in Japan in the 1950s when a chemical factory dumped mercury into the bay, poisoning people who ate them and the fish.
  • Population

    3 Billion reached in 1960
  • Rachel Carson's silent spring

    The book for environmental science was published September 27, 1962. It was used for soldiers in WW2. they will probably always be less celebrated than wars, marches, riots, or stormy campaigns, books have at times been the greatest impact of social change in American life.
  • Population

    4 Billion reached
  • Stockholm conference

    The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm was the first world conference to make the environment a major issue. The participants adopted a series of principles for sound management.
  • clean water act

    Summary description: The clean water act. Establishes the basic structure for getting used to polluted items in the United States water. This was used in 1948 and was called the Federal Water Pollution control act. This has helped pollution in the water. The water pollution.
  • Endangered species act

    The Endangered Species Act of 1973 used a framework to protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats abroad. It makes the act for fish, wildlife, and plants it provided plans to recover.
  • Love Canal

    Love Canal is an aborted canal project branching off the Niagara River about four miles south of Niagara Falls. It is also the name of a 15-acre, working-class neighborhood of around 800 single-family homes built directly to the canal.
  • Chernobyl

    On April 26 1986 the reactor exploded around the city of in north Ukraine near the border of the soviet union. They were testing cooling the reactor during a blackout situation and it failed then blew up.
  • Bhopal disaster

    The disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was an accident on the night in Union India December 1984.There was a lot of death. The family members got paid by the government for some victims that were killed in the tragic gas disaster. This marked the start. A government report in 2006 said that the leak caused injuries to many people. and very permanent disabling injuries.
  • Population

    5 Billion
  • Montreal protocol

    The Montreal Protocol tries to accept and protect the ozone layer by making production smaller and of ozone substances. It is the first treaty to reach all the countries around the world. It phased out to be consumption and production.
  • The Great Pacific Garbage Act

    he great pacific garbage patch is a garbage patch of marine debris particles in the north Pacific Ocean the floating trash originated from the pacific rim.
  • Population

    6 Billion
  • Kyoto protocol

    The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997 and went into take place in 2005. It was based on predictions on climate change from 1992. The protocol was the first world treaty to set legal targets for greenhouse gas emissions. It recognized high levels of GHG. Economics went into transition.
  • Documentary film An Inconvenient Truth released.

    Oscar-winning documentary about the environment featuring the unlikeliest of movie people. A president candidate Gore holds this film together as, in front of an others and with aids beyond photo slides, he explains how humans have done things with the planet.
  • Population

    7 Billion
  • Paris climate Accord

    he Paris agreement is a treaty on climate change it is to increase the global average temp to well below 2c above preindustrial levels.
  • Population

    8 Billion