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The world’s first national park, starting the idea of saving nature for everyone to enjoy. 🌲
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John Muir started this group to protect forests, mountains, and wild places.
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Rachel Carson book A silent spring published and it showed how dangerous chemicals (like pesticides) were hurting people, animals, and the environment. It woke people up.
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Millions of people protested for clean air and water. The government responded by creating the Environmental Protection Agency to protect nature.
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Countries around the world agreed (for the first time) to cut down on pollution that causes climate change.
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A movie by Al Gore that showed the dangers of climate change in a way that got people talking everywhere.
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Almost every country promised to work together to fight climate change and keep Earth from getting too hot.
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A 15-year-old in Sweden skipped school to protest climate change. Millions of kids and adults around the world joined her.
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World leaders met to make new promises about cutting pollution, stopping coal use, and aiming for “net zero” (not adding more greenhouse gases than we remove).
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The United Nations said that having clean air, water, and a safe planet is a basic human right for everyone.