1.1 – Justify, using examples and evidence, how historical influences have shaped the development of the modern environmental movement.
By n452876scs
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IUCN was founded in a French Town called Fontainebleau. It brought together Governments and civil societies with the main goal being to protect nature.
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The Minamata Disaster began in the mid 1950s in Japan when people started noticing multiple cats were going crazy and falling into the sea. Pretty soon Human residents of Minamata Japan were infected as well reporting numbness in multiple parts of their body. Others developed shaking in multiple parts of their body as well as loss of vision and hearing.
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Originally posted in "The New York Times", a Silent Spring was a novel made to inform people on the destructive nature man made pesticides have on the environment. Rachel did not want a full out ban on these pesticides, however she demanded that they be used less commonly, and only when absolutely necessary.
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Named after Greek Goddess of Earth, The Gaia Hypothesis states that the Earth has biological systems responsible for maintaining and building up the world as we know it. One piece of evidence supporting this theory is that life has existed for 3.8 billion years even with the increased heat and solar luminosity.
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The club of Rome was a report that stated how important it is for humans to do what they can to save the environment. Also, this report explained how if the human race keeps treating the environment in a negative way, the consequences would be great.
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This conference was very important because not only did it link environmental protection with sustainable development, it also produced solid ideas on how governments could wor collaboratively to save the environment.
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First started in Vancouver, "Save The Whales" has become a worldwide movement full of people upset about the current state of Whales and the way people ae treating them. President Obama did not agree with this movement, and stated that Japan is doing their slaughters for "scientific" purposes and he intended to overturn the ban against harming whales. However, the people of this movement will never back down, stating that Russia and Japan will have to take the whales "over their dead bodies"
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Although the idea has been around for a while,Woodbury, New Jersey, was the first town to make its curbside-pickup program mandatory for residents.
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Bhopal, India had a tragedy occur to them slightly over 30 years ago. With over 600,000 people in the area, at least 30 tons of methyl isocyanate, as well as other poisonous gasses. These gasses caused nausea, sore throat, itchy eyes, and even death to many people in the Bhopal, India area.
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In Auckland harbor in New Zealand, Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior sinks after French agents attacked using a bomb. The Rainbow Warrior was in the preparing stages of a voyage to the French Nuclear Test site.
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A test was being conducted in Ukraine when the workers lost control. the base of the plant’s reactor No. 4 exploded, blowing off its giant concrete lid, then letting a massive stream of radiation into the air. The soviet Union kept this news secret for a couple of days, but finally made an announcement after 148 people who were around the scene were hospitalized.
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Established in Brazil, Agenda 21 started as a peaceful paper signed by President George H.W. Bush and the leaders of 177 other nations. However, as the years progressed different groups such as the John Birch Society got involved with Agenda 21 causing conspiracy theories and reffered to as a "destructive and insidious scheme."
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Although adopted in 1997, this protocol took until 2005 to enter force. This protocol operationalizes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in an attempt to limit the use of greenhouse gasses and ultimately slow down climate change. It focuses on big developed countries as they are the primary source of the harmful gasses.
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This American documentary featured former US president Al Gore. He stated the true effects of greenhouse gasses and also how global warming is increasingly becoming worse.
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This political accord was addressed by many other nations, including for the first time, China and other major developing countries. The man topic of this meeting was climate change. They had many goalds including lowering the average temperature in an attempt to reverse climate change.
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The Great Pacific search was the largest mass search of garbage. It was caused by the mass amounts of garbage and litter that was caused by humans and killing innocent fish and sea life.
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In this agreement, signatory countries sing to lower the rising temperature of the 21st century. This is another agreement caused by the negative effects of climate change and the fight to resist it.