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Population increases
The world hit 1 billion in 1804 -
population increase
2 billion in 1927 -
the great dust bowl
The Dust bowl was a period of dust storms that made it almost impossible to farm, raise a family, and be healthy as a whole. The Dust Bowl ruined the ecology of the land and caused severe drought. -
INUC
This is the International Union of Protecting Nature, where representatives from all over the world came to France and created the IUCN which helped protect nature -
Great smog of London
a great smog filled the air of London from heavy coal combustion and caused 12,000 people to die and thousands more to become ill. -
Minamata
In Minamata Japan the Chisso’s Chemical factory dumped mercury waste in the rivers which was consumed by most of the local population and caused mercury poisoning and caused lots of neurological symptoms and paralysis, numbing of the hands, and deafness -
population increase
3 billion in 1960 -
Silent Spring
Silent spring remains one of the most influential books of the environmental movements because it brought up ideas on how pollution affects food chains. -
Whaling
anti whalers campaign consisted of soviet whalers that made a campaign that was worldwide preventing whales deaths. -
Stockholm conference
main purpose of the conference was to serve as a practical means to encourage and provide guidelines for action by Governments and international organizations designed to protect and improve the human environment. -
population increase
4 billion in 1974 -
Gaia hypothesis
this theory produced by James Lovelock proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on earth thus forming a complex system -
Seveso Dioxin Cloud
On this date, an explosion at a Northern Italian chemical plant released a deadly cloud of dioxin that settled on the town of Seveso killing animals and providing other terrible effects on the environment -
Three Mile Island accident
On this date, reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island resulted in a deadly radiation leak with Catastrophic environmental consequences -
Bhopal disaster
On Dec 2, 1984, an accident at a pesticide plant in Bhopal India released 30 tons of the toxic gas methyl isocyanate leading to over 600000 innocent people being exposed to the gas resulting in an estimated 15,000 deaths -
Sinking of the rainbow warrior
two explosions rocketed the harbor and sunk the ship after the ship was protesting the nuclear testing in the south pacific. -
Our Common Truth
This took the ideas from the Stockholm conference and developed them further and linked environmental concerns to development -
population increase
5 billion in 1987 -
The Exxon Valdez
On this date, 11 million gallons of oil were spilled into the ocean covering 1300 miles of water in slick toxic oil -
Chernobyl
the number 4 reactor in the nuclear powerplant blew up and caused heavy amounts of radiation to go in the city and cause major environmental damage. -
Kuwaiti Oil Fires
On Jan 16th 1991 wells in Kuwait blew up causing a huge inferno that burned for 10 months with disastrous environmental consequences -
Agenda 21
this is a blueprint for action to achieve sustainable development worldwide. It is a plan that is globally used to help places in the environment that humans have affected greatly. -
Kyoto
this protocol extends the united nations convention on climate change which requires state parties to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions. -
population increase
6 billion in 1999 -
Inconvenient truth
its main purpose was to examine the issues, surrounding climate change and increased awareness of environmental issues. -
population increase
7 billion people in 2011