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UK’s ten National Parks are established
These parks being established helped recognize how important it is for us as people to conserve natural areas. -
Minamata Bay Disaster
It helped emphasize how food chains have the ability to easily accumulate toxins into higher levels of the food chain. This even includes humans. -
NGO’s gain greater following
Allowed public awareness to grow for many different organizations. This includes WWFN, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth forming. -
Rachel Carson publishes ‘Silent Spring’
It helped people realize and accept how toxic and bad things like pesticides are for us. -
(Not from text) First Earth Day
The first Earth Day had 20 million Americans take part in it and helped launch environmental activism. (10 Key Moments That Shaped Environmental History) -
Minamata Bay Disaster
It helped emphasize how food chains have the ability to easily accumulate toxins into higher levels of the food chain. This even includes humans. -
(Not from text) Recycling Goes Curbside
Even though it was already created, curbside recycling took off in 1980 starting in Woodbury, New Jersey. -
Chernobyl Disaster
It was a nuclear fallout that affected millions of people. -
Green awareness strengthens
This event help make environmentally friendly products and recycling more popular -
Johannesburg Earth Summit
It helped improve water and sanitation, energy supply issues, health, agricultural abuse, and biodiversity reduction. -
Kyoto protocol becomes a legal requirement
It helped 174 countries to reduce carbon emissions -
Film “An Inconvenient Truth” released
It brought awareness to global warming. -
Rio +20
Paper “The Future We Want” published.