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Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring'
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was an influential book which made a case against chemical pollution by documenting the harmful effects of pesticides. This book also led many to become concern of pesticides and pollution. -
Club Of Rome
An environmental movement that made the best selling environmental book in history: The Limits to Growth. This book examined the consequences of rapidly growing world population on finite natural resources. -
Stockholm Conference
The first meeting of the international community to consider global environment and development needs. Furthermore, it also examined how human activity was affecting the environment. -
James Lovelock's 'Gaia'
Gaia was a book which proposed the hypothesis that the Earth is a living organism with self-regulatory mechanisms that maintain the climate and biological conditions. -
Bhopal
Bhopal was the name given to the release of 42 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the Indian City of Bhopal. In total, there were an estimate of 25,000 deaths from this. -
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
The Rainbow Warrior was sunk to prevent the ship from interfering with nuclear test in the Polynesian Island of Moruo. This event promoted environmental campaigns against nuclear testing. -
Chernobyl
Chernobyl occurred when reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl plant in the Ukraine exploded and highly radioactive dust went into the atmosphere. Around 3336,000 people were evacuated and there were an increase number of cancer incidents. -
UN Earth (Rio) Summit
The UN Earth (Rio) Summit encouraged people to think of the indirect values of ecosystems apart from economic ones. The Summit also gave people a different perspective in sustainability on a global scale and economic growth. -
Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development looked mainly at social issues and targets were set to reduce poverty and increase people’s access to safe drinking water and sanitation. -
An Inconvenient Truth
An inconvenient truth was a book written by Al Gore and it stated that if we continue ignoring the environmental problems they will only get bigger, not smaller.
