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Thomas Mathus predicted that exponential population growth would outplace linear food production, leading to starvation.
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A Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and most importantly, early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. He founded the Sierra Club, which is now one of the most important conservation organizations in America. His writings about nature have been read by millions, aspiring many.
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau is an American novel that tells the story of how Henry lived next to Walden Lake for over two years and expressed the idea of simple living and immersing himself into nature.
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A law signed by President Abraham Lincoln, and sought to populate the American West with farmers, by offering vast amounts of land for a small filing fee and a small investment of time and effort. The Law failed mainly due to exploitation by railroads and other major interests for profit.
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General Revision Act was signed, which authorized the President, under the Forest Reserve Act, to create forest preserves that are completely or partly covered with timber or undergrowth, whether worth commercial value or not.
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Sierra Club Founded by John Muir. The Sierra Club’s mission is, “to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.” The Sierra club has hundreds of thousands of members spread across the United States
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Protects both plants and wildlife by establishing penalties for a wide variety of violations. It prohibits trade of wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, transported or sold.
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U.S. Forest Service founded, which is an agency that administers/watches over the nation’s 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands.
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An American forester and politician that was known for improving the management and development of forests in the United States and for supporting the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal.
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An American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. He is best known for his very successful book, A Sand County Almanac. He valued biodiversity and his ethics of nature had a big impact on the environmental movement.
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Audubon Society founded, a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation. It is one of the oldest organizations of this type.
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Gives the President the authority to restrict the use of public land owned by the federal government
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Congress became upset because Roosevelt was waving so much forest land so they banned further withdrawals.
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The Energy Policy Act is a United States government act. It was passed by Congress and addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management, and more issues.
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Soil Conservation Service founded, currently known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service. They are an agency that provides technical assistance to farmers and other landowners
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Civilian Conservation Corps founded, which was a service program designed for young men where they could receive a small wage, food, shelter, and clothing for conserving and developing natural resources in rural lands. This was implemented to help relieve families who had trouble finding jobs in the Great Depression.
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Signed by President Roosevelt, had the purpose of stopping injury to public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, and to stabilize the livestock industry.
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Under the Act, any person who hunts ducks, geese, swans or brant and is 16 years of age or older must carry a current Duck stamp on which he has written his signature in ink. This qualifies the hunter as a legal wildfowl, provided he has a state-hunting license.
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A federal government agency within the United States Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.
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Jane Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is also the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked a lot on conservation and animal welfare issues.
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The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. The book took record of detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds.
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It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected over nine million-acres of federal land.
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The National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by Congress in 1968 to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values for the enjoyment of present and future generations.
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In his 1970 Environmental Message to Congress, President Richard Nixon emphasized the importance of environmental literacy, "It is also vital that our entire society develop a new understanding and a new awareness of man's relation to his environment ."
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The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire helped spur a lot of water pollution control activities, resulting in the Clean Water Act, and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States law that established a national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment.
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The EPA is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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FIFRA was essentially rewritten in 1972 when it was amended by the Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act (FEPCA). The law has been amended a number of times since 1972. In its current form, FIFRA mandates that EPA makes sure that the use of pesticides is safe for human health and the environment
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On October 1973, OPEC declared an oil embargo in response to the United States' and Western Europe's support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The result was a spike in oil prices overnight.
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The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), is the main law in the United States watching over the disposal of solid and hazardous waste.
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The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. The act established the goals of eliminating releases of high amounts of toxic substances into water,
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The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, or SMCRA is the primary federal law that watches over the environmental effects of coal mining.
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Lois Gibbs is an American environmental activist who found out that her child's school and her entire neighborhood, Love Canal, in New York, was built on a toxic waste dump. She led her community in a battle against the government, and after years of struggle, 833 families were evacuated and the cleanup began.
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The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The partial accident resulted in the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
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The Act provided for 43,585,000 acres of new national parklands in Alaska; the addition of 53,720,000 acres to the National Wildlife Refuge System; twenty-five wild and scenic rivers, and much more.
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Superfund is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. It is a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances.
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Ronald Reagan's famous quote, "Seen one redwood, seen 'em all" is a misquote. As governor of California, he set aside almost 150,000 acres of land for the state park system. Reagan also established the Air Resources Board to battle California's worst-in-the-nation smog problem, and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to address Lake Tahoe's environmental difficulties.
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The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster.
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The Chernobyl Disaster was a nuclear accident caused by an explosion, and released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.
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The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion.
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels over the next few days.
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A federal law signed by President Bill Clinton, and passed by the United States Congress that established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert.
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The Kyoto Protoco is an international treaty that sets obligations on industrialised countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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