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This disease is a neurological syndrome and is a caused when fish ingests methyl mercury and then we humans eat the fish. In Minamata Japan there was a a ton of waste from industrial buildings going into the water this is what caused it.
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This is an environmental book warning others about the environmental harm that pesticides cause. She talked about how the chemicals are harming the earth. The pesticide companies were not happy about this book.
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An oil well in Santa Barbara experienced a blowout and is known as the biggest oil spill in the USA. This helped spread a awareness about the effects of oil. -
20 million Americans on this day celebrated what’s known to be the first earth day. They did rallies, clean up’s and just come together to spread awareness.
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This was a song written by Joni Mitchell, it was a song about protesting environmental destruction. She was inspired to write this song after a trip to Hawaii when she noticed a parking lot were there used to be so much natural plants and trees.
Work cited: Slides and https://www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/big-yellow-taxi-by-joni-mitchell/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CBig%2520Yellow%2520Taxi%E2%80%9D%2520is%2520an,of%2520the%2520northern%2520Pacific%2520Ocean. -
The Bhopal gas tragedy happened because of a leak. This gas was poisonous and leaked from a pesticide plant. This is recognized as one of the worst industrial disasters in history. -
Chernobyl was a reactor at a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl Ukraine. Durning a test it went out of control and thus caused a huge explosion that sent a bunch of radiation into the atmosphere. Over 350,000 people were evacuated and more than 500 people died because of the radiation into the atmosphere.
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Julia lived in a 200 foot tall red wood tree called Luna for 2 years (December 10, 1997 to December 18, 1999 located in Humboldt County, California) as a protest against the Pacific Lumber Company from chopping down all of the ancient red wood trees.
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An Inconvenient Truth is a movie that presents former vice president of the USA AI Gore’s slide show campaign about global warming. This movie would later on win many awards, it was a big success. But it also became very controversial if it was as accurate as it once seemed.
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In Japan an earthquake and tsunami led to a huge nuclear disaster. Tons of people had to evacuate because of the radiation.
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Harambe was a gorilla at a the Cincinnati Zoo who was shot and killed after a 3 year old boy fell 15 feet into the gorilla’s enclosure. Zoo workers were prompted to shoot the gorilla after it was interacting and dragging the boy through the water in the enclosure. After this happened it striked a huge debate whether it was needed to shoot the gorilla, if parents were at fault and if the zoo should have gorillas kept in captivity.
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Greta Thunberg was 15 at the time she gave a speech at TEDxStockholm event about climate change. She focused on the future problems and her speech was a call to action.
Work cited: Slides