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Extinction of the Dodo Bird
The dodo bird is the best example of human cause extinction. The Dodo bird was bird native to the Mauritius Islands of India. It was a large, flightless bird with no natural predators on the island, because of this they were unafraid of sailors that landed on the island. Because they were an easy target, the sailors overhunted them, and in less then 200 years, wiped to extinction. -
Population Reaches 1 Billion
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Human Populations Reaches 2 Billion
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Love Canal
Love canal was a canal built between higher and lower Niagara rivers to power the homes and industries nearby in 1910, but Nikola Tesla's new discovery on how to transmit electricity across extremely far areas, so the canal project got scrapped and all that's left was a ditch, used as a chemical dump. They covered the dumpsite with soil, as the years went by, houses and other structures built upon it causing dangerous chemicals to leak through the surface and destroy people's in-ground basements -
Minamata Disaster
In Kyushu, Japan, people were suffered mercury poisoning when eating fish and shellfish. It was later discovered that the seafood was contaminated with MeHg or Minamata disease, that came from wastewater of a chemical plant that was dumping it into the surrounding waters. The company and government denied the problem but plant was eventually fined for the contamination. -
Human Population Reaches 3 Billion
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Goldsboro B-52 Crash
over Goldsboro North Carolina a Boeing b-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8 Megaton mark 39 nuclear bombs were released while in flight, both bombs were dropped on Goldsboro and one survived with the other missing, with the dropped nuclear bombs they admitted nuclear radiation causing some spots in NC to be inhabitable due to the radiation poisoning -
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Rachal Carson exposed the dangers of pesticides DDT that was used on crops that animals ate, this occurred shortly after World War 2 and was a great way to keep creatures away from the crops. DDT would remain on the crop causing the product to have lingering poisoness properties for us to eat! Causing Rachel to explain to the world the dangerous effects -
Stockholm Conference
In Sweden, the UN brought to light environmental issues attended by 117 governments and talked about the “environmental framework” that explained wildlife and humans, the ozone, natural disasters and more -
Endangered Species Act
US Congress established the Endangered Species act in response to various wildlife, fish and plant species have gone extinct and even more that were depleted down to endangered levels due to human interaction with the environment. “The Endangered Species Act of 1973 provides framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats both domestically and abroad”, this is the mission of this act and what it hoped to, and has accomplished since its establishment. -
Human Population Reaches 4 Billion
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California Droughts
The California droughts started in 1976 and continue through today, as the years past the heat has increased with the C02 levels it has made the drought speed increased, today California is mostly droughted but with efforts by us humans we try to stop the drought process -
Bhopal Disaster
The Bhopal disaster was a chemical accident in Bhopal, India at the United Carbide India Limited chemical plant. The accident exposed over 500,000 locals around the plant to MIC or Methyl Isocyanate, an extremely toxic gas. The UCC, the owers of the plant, had to pay about 1 billion dollars in todays money, and cleanup ended in in 1998. -
Human Population Reaches 5 Billion
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Chernobyl Meltdown
In the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, the 4rth reactor in the plant malfunctioned and exploded due to design flaw and inadequately trained workers. 350,000 people were evacuated from the surrounding areas and infecting the surrounding area in huge amounts of radiation. The radiation is still very strong around the area to this day. The accident did however spark further research into Nuclear safety. -
Montreal Protocol
The global agreement to the ozone layer from depleting further. They brought of products that helped further deplete the ozone and fixed alot of ozone decreasing products from further being used and produced -
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge collection of Marine debris in the Pacific Ocean that migrates throughout the Pacific due to the Convergence zone, the meeting of cold and warm water acting like a highway for trash. No countries are currently doing anything about the patch because it is in International Waters, therefore no country is taking responsibility. And the scientist who discovered the patch Charles Moore, says that cleaning up the patch would bankrupt a country. -
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol was a meeting of Industrialized countries to form an agreement to change and transition to better policies to limit and reduce greenhouse gases. 192 countries joined together in this commission and were supposed to have all of their ratification processes into act by 2005 but none of them really did that. -
Human Population Reaches 6 Billion
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"An Inconvenient Truth" was released
The documentary has the presenter Al Gore, he discussed how we humans needed to stop releasing as much CO2 in the atmosphere and several Enviromental threats -
Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill
This oil spill is the largest oil spill in history, located at the Gulf of Mexico when an oil rig had completely sunk, causing oil to deplete in the ocean plus cause massive burning fires. The cause was due to a massive pipe holding oil that had been holding too much methane gas causing it to explode, this poisoned the fish it the gulf and Luisianas had difficulty having good fish -
Human Population Reaches 7 Billion
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Human Population Reaches 8 Billion