ESS Environmental Movement

  • 1st billion people on earth at once

  • Spanish Flu

    The Spanish Flu is not truly known what made the disease so harmful. Worldwide reaction similar to the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak.
  • 2nd billion of people on earth at once

  • Founding of IUCN

    The IUCN was established in Fontainebleau, France. It guided governments to encourage international cooperation and provide scientific knowledge to protect nature.
  • Kyoto Vaccines

    68 of 606 children died after getting a vaccine that was not vetted properly and had harmful chemicals in it.
  • Minamata

    Minamata is a disease that occurred in Japan after a chemical plant was releasing its waste into a river. When the citizens of Japan ate the fish from this river that was contaminated they contracted the disease.
  • 3rd billion people on earth at once

  • Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"

    "Silent Spring" has had a lasting impact on the readers of the book to how humans are misusing pesticides and how that is hurting the environment.
  • Gaia Hypothesis

    Earth's organisms are connected with all their surroundings to create a complex system in the biosphere.
  • 4th billion people on earth at once

  • Whaling (save the whales)

    Anti-whaling campaign launched by Greenpeace that got governmental leaders together to form an international ban on commercial whaling.
  • Bhopal Disaster

    A gas leak at a pesticide plant that killed at least 3500 people immediately and has affected many other even till this very day.
  • Chernobyl

    The nuclear powerplant accident has the concerns of many health and environmental agencies. The WHO is concerned with the amount of radiation people have taken in over the years. However, cancer increase have not been as high as first speculated for the people that were ingested with contaminated products.
  • 5th billion people on earth at once

  • Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains plastic smaller than pepper flakes called microplastics and pieces of plastic nets and bottles.
  • 6th billion people on earth at once

  • "An Inconvenient Truth"

    A chilling film that shows the average American the mass extinction event that is beginning with climate change, starring former vice president Al Gore.
  • Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    4 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico which caused a large global effort to help stop this from damaging the local environment.
  • 7th billion of people on earth at once

  • Amazon Deforestation

    The deforestation of Amazon forests happened because farmers of Brazil are going to use the land to grow cattle and destroy the fertility of the soil.
  • Covid-19

    Covid has had a global effect on the entire world with this pandemic and death from a very contagious virus.
  • Australian Fires

    12.6 million hectares and 1.25 billion animals were killed during this intense fires that were magnified by climate change.
  • Red Tide

    Red tide is a recurring algae bloom that destroys the ecosystems in the marine wildlife. Usually found around the coast of the states in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • The Arctic Global Warming

    The Arctic ice sheets and glaciers continue to decrease and shirk as the years go on. The speed in which they are shrinking is increasing as the greenhouse gases increase.
  • California Fires

    These fires are happening right now as we speak and it is getting almost no media coverage. Climate change creates longer and worse dry seasons where these fires can happen easier.

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