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Humans learned farming and sustainable agriculture (Textbook)
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Soil conservation practiced in China, India, and Peru (Britannica)
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Pollution is blamed for spreading disease in Europe (Britannica)
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Population growth causes more use of resources and more fuel being burnt for production of goods and services, land is cleared and nature becomes polluted (Textbook)
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Book by naturalist Henry David Thoreau (PBS)
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Book by George Perkins (PBS)
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National Park (PBS)
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John Muir starts writing essays, articles and books about the Sierra Nevada (PBS)
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English romantics and reformers including John Ruskin, Octavia Hill and Edward Carpenter articulate ideas about saving nature and man from the Industrial Revolution (PBS)
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The National Audubon Society forms to save plume birds from ladies’ hatters
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National Park (PBS)
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The Sierra Club is established by John Muir and others to defend Yosemite National Park (PBS)
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Philosophy of resource conservation was developed by Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service (PBS)
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National Park
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Sweden establishes 9 national parks
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Save the Redwoods League begins buying the last old-growth redwood trees (PBS)
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The Wilderness Society is started by Aldo Leopold and others to preserve wilderness; and the National Wildlife Federation brings together hunters and fishermen (PBS)
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Machines built and oil being used, technology added to agriculture, pesticides start being used, population rises to about 3 billion, waste production dramatically increases (Textbook)
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The Ecologists Union, later the Nature Conservancy, is started by scientists to acquire ecologically important reserves (PBS)
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Book by Aldo Leopold (PBS)
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Pollution starts affecting the world with global warming and ozone layer depletion, environmentalists rise up with scientific backgrounds (PBS)
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Government begins to form nature reserves and help the environment, movement begins to gain popularity (Textbook)
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The World Wildlife Fund is founded by Sir Julian Huxley, Dutch and British royals
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Book by Rachel Carson that warns of devastation that pesticides
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Campaigns in Tasmania in the 1970s and ’80s to block the flooding of Lake Pedder and the damming of the Franklin River (PBS)
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Greenpeace founded (Textbook)
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Protests in the United States and western Europe against nuclear power development, especially following the catastrophic accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl (PBS)
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Research is being conducted to protect the environment (Textbook)