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the western industrial revolution when burning coal became the primary source of energy/fuel, and when human advancement dramatically changed the Earth's landscape.
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a major dry period in the plains region of North America that causes major erosion, famine, and loss of jobs at accompanied the Great Depresion
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ES/ecology essential book my Rachel Carson about the dangers of chemical pesticides.
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President Richard Nixon signed the executive order to create the US Environmental Protection Agency
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President Jimmy Carter created the first Secretary of Energy position, designed to focus on energy production and regulation, and later, shifted to developing technology for better and more efficient energy sources as well as energy education.
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Nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, USSR (now Ukarine). Causes numerous deaths directly and indirectly through radiation
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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several containers of plastic pellets were spill in a typhoon off the shore of Hong Kong