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With the industrial revolution in full swing, and the quality of life improving all around the northern hemisphere, the human population explodes. -
After the devestation of the first world war, The united states spearheads a significant economic boom, resulting in the jump of human life from one billion to two billion. -
a union made up of government bodies and civil societies, with over 1400 member organizations, and over 18000 environmental experts, made to encourage the protection and integrity of environmental systems and societies all over the world -
A case of industrial mercury pollution leads to the poisoning of approximately three thousand residents in a fishing town called Minamata. Over half of the afflicted residents die. -
in the midst of the cold war, the human population steadily increases at an exponential rate, going from two to three billion people in under fourty years, four times faster then the transition from one to two billion -
A book Published by Rachel Carson, which discusses the harmful effects on the environment of a pesticide called DDT, which was widely used at the time in the agriculture industry. The books many cited experts and sources led to its success, and DDT is now banned in the united states and the EU -
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin beings plans to divert water from two rivers, feeding the Aral sea to more fertile farmlands. Without the rivers to feed it, the Aral sea begins to evaporate, at the time of writing the Aral sea is around ten percent its original size, and three times its original salinity, meaning almost all life that resided in the sea has been poisoned by increased salt. -
Whaling, or the act of hunting whales and killing them for food or their blubber, had been in practice for almost a millennium, was officially banned in the United States in 1971, since then, many other countries and institutions have made vast efforts to protect these gentle giants of the sea. -
A theory proposed by James Lovelock that stated that all organisms interact in some way with inorganic things around the world to form some sort of system to maintain the climate and biochemical properties of the earth. -
In just under fifteen years, the human population rapidly rises from three to four billion. While most developed countries such as the United States and the EU have fairly stable birth rates, developing countries birthrates rise as fewer children die every year. -
Minamata, a warning to the world is a photo essay and book that recounts the tragic case of industrial mercury pollution in a small town in Japan called Minamata, which led to around 3,000 residents contracting a so called "Minamata disease", and over half of them perishing from the disease. -
In 1984, a insecticide plant in Bhopal, India suffered a leakage, spilling 25 tons of toxic gas into the surrounding urban areas. This led to the death of between fifteen and twenty thousand civilians, and over half a million cases of respiratory complications. It was considered at the time to be the largest industrial accident in history -
A Nuclear power plant in the Soviet occupied state of Ukraine (then known as the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic) experiences a critical failure in its 4th reactor after an unexpected power surge, resulting in a large explosion caused by the reactor meltdown. The explosion and following pollution released vast amounts of nuclear radiation into the surrounding areas, leaving the area uninhabitable to this day. Experts blame a lack of sufficiently trained personel and outdated safety measures. -
with the exponential rate of human consepction, it takes only thirteen years for humanity to grow another billion in population. -
As the soviet union collapses, ending the cold war, the human population reaches six billion strong. In just twelve years a billion more people come to inhabit our planet, this is the fastest growth in population the human race has ever seen, and likely the fastest growth it ever will. -
A documentary style movie presented by former Presidential candidate Al Gore, which discusses the ever intensifying issue of climate change and global warming that is caused by humanity and its rapid industrialization -
As the birthrate and death rate of children in developing countries begin to even out, the rate of human population growth slows a bit, from twelve years from five to six billion, to thirteen years once again for the transition between six and seven billion