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Our population hit 1 billion
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This was created to protect nation parks and monuments as well as fighting for clean air and endangered species. Their main goal is to just bring people together and create the most powerful and impactful environmental movement.
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Our population hit 2 billion
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An non-profit environmental organization established in Washington D.C. Its main goal is to preserve/protect ecologically important lands and water around the world.
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During the year of 1953, heavy industrial smog deposited into New York City's air, poisoning/killing hundreds of people in the area. This is a crucial event in the environmental movement because it raised awareness on how the environment gets effected by pollution and so do the inhabitants/humans.
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In 1956 a fatal disease was introduced to local fishers. It was caused by the chemicals that the factories let off into the ocean exposing the local fish and shellfish to this chemical. The fish were then consumed and left people with mercury poisoning birth affects, paralysis and even death.
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This Federal act will started government regulated water, to ensure the health of individuals in the area if the water ever becomes polluted.
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This event was important because it was the first global environmental union that brought together governments and societies to carry out one goal, to protect nature.
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Our population hit 3 billion
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This book brought awareness to the damage the pesticides were making on the environment. It is said to be the first environmental movement in the US. She took years to explore the ecosystem on the East Coast studying the effects of DDT and other harmful pesticides.
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Thirty tons of methyl isocyanate, an extremely toxic gas, was released into the air at Union Carbide pesticide plant in India. Just over night, it seeped into town and cities exposing upwards of 600,000 people causing roughly to 16,000 deaths. Theses toxic gases world get into the consumers throat and eyes causing sever nausea and birth defects.
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The first large-scale demonstration of environmental activism, it lead to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA).
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The Gaia hypothesis basically says that all organisms interact with the inorganic environment around them. It is based on the evolution of organisms, global temperatures, salinity of ocean water, and much more environmental factors.
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A peaceful movement lead by Indian women in hopes of protecting the forest and nature because of all the wood the government was cutting down. Their request to stop the logging was denied, they went in the forest as a trip to prevent the trees from being cut down. A few days later and the government agreed with them and cancelled all logging in the area.
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Our population hit 4 billion
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In April of 1977, people turned their focus on the whales as they population steadily declined. There was an international ban for commercial whaling. Children around the world were being taught the importance of the ocean and the mammals that lived in there.
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A 7.3 million–square-mile hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is discovered, leading to about 100 counties pledging to stop the use of CFCs.
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Chernobyl was a steam explosion where more than 5 percent radioactive portion of the core was released into the air. Everyone presents at the explosion died the same night and an addition 28 later on.
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Our population hit 5 billion
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This Protocol is a signed agreement by many countries to limit the emissions of greenhouse gasses, such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane and so on. In the end, made to regulate global warming.
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Japan introduced a Toyota Prius, a hybrid gas-electric vehicle that could help reduce harmful emissions.
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Our population hit 6 billion
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Al Gore was determined to bring awareness to environmental problems like global warming ad climate change. Using graphs, pictures and tables, Gore successfully informed every one of the current problems and what we need to do to stop them. Scientist tested the film and everything was correct, now it is taught in school worldwide.
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Our population hit 7 billion
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In August of 2015, 30 vessels discovered and mapped the 80 million Kilometer garbage patch between California and Hawaii. This event brought to light the amount of plastic pollution evident in our oceans.
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This international agreement went into effect in 2016. Countries agreed to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius.
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