Environmental movements

By Jeremy. Paul

  • Population 1 billion

  • Population 2 billion (123 years later)

  • The Dust Bowl

    The dust bowl was dust storms that damaged the agriculture of the Americans prairies. It was caused by a severe drought and human made factors.

  • Minamata disaster

    The Minamata disaster was a disease that was linked to water with chemicals released into it. When people/animals drank the water it lead to sever neurological illnesses. 1932-1968

  • Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Published

    Silent Spring was a book that was published to show people what effect pesticides have on the environment. This book caused such a large movement that all across the world DDT was banned. 1962

  • Population 3 Billion (33 years later)

  • The burning of the Cuyahoga River (1969)

    The burning of the Cuyahoga River was a river that caught on fire multiple times because of republic steel trapped debris in the river. A flare that was tossed into the river lighted the debris on fire.

  • The Santa Barbara oil spill (1969)

    The Santa Barbara Oil Spill happened in January 1969. The oil spill happened near the city of Santa Barbara in the Santa Barbara Channel. What happened was in the span of ten days 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the channels.

  • Endangered Species Act

    The Endangered Species Act is a federal law to protect endangered or threatened species from going extinct. This has majorly helped in keeping our environment diverse.

  • Stockholm Conference

    • Summary description: In 1972 the United Nations held a conference known as the Stockholm Conference which was the first world conference that made the environment a major issue. It contained 26 principles that placed the environmental issues that the most important national concerns.

  • Population 4 billion (14 years later)

  • Love Canal

    A canal that was not finished only going a mile quickly became a dump site for the city of Niagara Falls. After this the canal was purchased by a school. After the next few decades it got attention for the public health originating from the dumping of toxic waste from it becoming a dump site before this.

  • Discovery of the ozone hole (1980s)

    his was two related events: a lowered total amount of ozone and a much larger springtime decrease. The main cause was manufactured chemicals and foam.

  • Chernobyl Meltdown

    In 1986 the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and instantly killed the workers and gave radiation poisoning to many outside of the plant. It greatly increased global awareness of how dangerous nuclear power plants can be

  • Bhopal disaster

    In December of 1984 40+ tons of a toxic gas known as methyl isocyanate gas killing 3,800+ people immediately and causing severe harm or premature death to many more. It demonstrated the impact of industrial negligence and caused more strict environment laws to be enacted.

  • The Montreal Protocol

    The Montreal Protocol was an agreement to regulate the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances. It successfully made a model for international cooperation. (1987)

  • Population 5 billion (13 years later)

  • Medical waste washing ashore (1988)

    The Syringe Tide happened when large amount of medical waste including syringes washed up onto the beaches of Jersey Shore. This forced them to close the beach on the coast of the Atlantic.

  • Kyoto protocol

    The Kyoto Protocol was an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases/carbon dioxide emissions. It was the first global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

  • Population 6 billion (12 years later)

  • Documentary film An Inconvenient Truth released.

    “An inconvenient Truth” is an American documentary about a former vice president trying to inform people about global warming. It has been credited for raising international awareness of global warming

  • Population 7 billion (12 years later)

  • Population 8 Billion (12 years later)