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Bernardo Razzimazi
• October 4 1633-November 5 1714
• Wrote a book which exposed the illnesses that workers could gain from exposure to harmful chemicals, dust, or metals, due to their occupations
• Encouraged the use of the cinchona plant to treat malaria -
Industrial Revolution
• 1750-1850
• Increase in factories and machinery lead to depletion of natural resources
• Increased usage of fossil fuels
• Increase in deforestation -
Thomas Malthus
• February 1766- December 1834
• Theorized that eventually human population will exceed the natural resources available -
Agricultural Revolution
• 10,000 years ago
• Led to the destruction of the environment
• Led to increase in food and crops for humans to eat -
General Motors
• September 16 1908; Ethyl Corp. started in 1923
• In 2008, committed to making ½ its manufacturing plants landfill free
• Creates hybrid cars that decrease the use of fossil fuels -
Civilian Conservation Corps
• 1933-1942
• Led to planting of thousands of trees
• Helped to improve and conserve many parks -
World War II
• 1939-1945
• Millions of tons of rubble covered the ground
• Oil, gasoline, other chemicals from war machinery spilled on land and in water -
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Tests
• 1946-1958
• Caused coconuts and plants on nearby islands to be radioactive
• Led to unsafe living conditions due to radiation among the soil and plants -
Tragedy of the Commons
• 1968
• Described in article by Garrett Hardin
• When a resource is depleted because of overuse by many people acting independently -
Rainbow Warrior
• July 10 1985
• Protested seal hunting and whaling, which hurt the ocean ecosystem
• Protested nuclear testing, which hurt the ocean ecosystem -
Chernobyl
• April 26 1986
• Led to nuclear contamination in water sources, which led to contamination of fish
• Horses and cattle killed due to thyroid damage from nuclear radiation
• Four square kilometers of pine forest directly downwind of the reactor died; “Red Forest” -
Exxon Valdez
• March 24 1989
• Death of between 100,000 and 250,000 seabirds
• Higher death rates in sea otters and ducks, which ingested prey from contaminated soil and ingested oil residue on hair due to grooming -
Persian Gulf War
• August 2 1990-February 28 1991
• Oil spills and succeeding fires caused by the warfare killed many birds, as well as numerous types of fish and flora living in the oil-polluted waters
• Many waters still contain oil from these spills over 20 years later -
China's Three Gorges Dam
• December 14 1994-2008
• Reduces coal consumption by 31 million tons per year; 100 million less tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year
• Erosion in the reservoir caused hundreds of significant landslides -
An Inconvenient Truth
• 2006
• Led to many people changing environmentally unfriendly habits
• Increased awareness of global warming -
BP Gulf Oil Spill
• April 20- July 15 2010
• Put more than 400 species that live in the Gulf islands and marshlands at risk
• Caused small amounts of oil to get trapped within live animals, such as within shells of crabs