ESS TIMELINE

  • Minamata disaster

    A neurological disease cause by mercury poisoning
  • Silent Spring

    The Book that started the movement
  • EPA

    Environmental protection agency
  • Bhopal disaster

    Half a million people were exposed to the pesticide plant and were exposed to the gas and nearly 3000 people died immediately
  • Chernobyl

    A no.4 nuclear power plant incident that caused death and a mass amount of destruction
  • Julia Hill Butterfly

    Julia Butterlfy lived in a tree for 2 years to obtain it from being logged. She did this to protect trees and learn the living of how trees feel and endure life. She later then founded the Circle of Life Foundation and created a book called the Legacy of Luna
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina was a powerful and destructive Category 3 storm that made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005
  • Inconvenient truth

    A 2006 film where al gore talked about controversial topics and was bias in some things
  • Fukushima

    A 2011 nuclear disaster that was caused by due to a tsunami and earthquake. The disaster was so big that many people had to evacuate and it took years to cleanup and refurnish what was then before
  • Harambe incident

    The Harambe I did net happened on the day of May 28 year of 2016. A 3 year old boy climbed into a Haramabe enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio. This led to the zoo meme ears to shoot the 17 yea role gorilla to protect the child. The action of shooting the animal came to controversy and debate over zoo safety, parental responsibility, and animal rights
  • Greta thunberg TED

    16 year old climate activist talks about climate change
  • Bleaching of coral reefs

    This process is primarily caused by rising ocean temperatures from climate change but can also be triggered by pollution and runoff