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Actual occurence: 10,000 BC.
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Predicted that exponential population growth would outpace linear food production, leading to starvation.
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Advocate for wilderness preservation. His efforts helped preserve Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks.
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Walden serves as a critique of the materialist and consumerist attitudes of modern Western society, but stresses the importance of engaging with the better parts of society.
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The Acts allowed for expansion by reducing the cost of land to almost nothing.
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The American Forestry Association is a non-profit group dedicated to protecting habitats and restoring ecosystems.
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Allowed the President to set aside areas of forest growth as national preserves.
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"To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the 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."
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The Act creates a variety of civil and criminal punishments for an array of violations (ex. trade in illegally imported plants and animals).
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1901-1909
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The USFS administers to the United States' National Forests and Grasslands (155 and 20, respectively).
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Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Agency (1905) until he was fired (1910).
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Leopold was an advocate for eology and biodiversity, and helped develop the modern system of environmental ethics.
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The Audubon Society is one of the oldest non-profit environmental conservation groups in the world.
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The Act allowed the President to set aside public-owned federal land for preservation or limited use. Devil's Tower is pictured.
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Congress became upset because Roosevelt was waiving so much forest land, so they banned further withdrawals.
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The Corps was founded to help young men find jobs during the Great Depression, while creating a general natural resource conservation program in every state.
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The Agency improves, protects, and conserves natural resources on private land by cooperating with state and local agencies.
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The law regulates grazing on public lands to improve and regulate rangeand conditions and use.
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Under this law, a stamp is required to hunt migratory waterbirds, such as ducks and geese.
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The Wildlife Services act to protect resources from damage by wildlife.
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Goodall is considered to be one of the leading researchers on chimpanzees and has done extensive work in the field of wildlife conservation/ protection.
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The book, which criticizes the chemical industry and public officials, is credited with aiding the creation of the modern environmental movement.
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The Act provides a definition of the word wilderness and protects 9.1 million acres of land.
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The Act protects rivers that are designated as wild or scenic from development that would damage their wild/ scenic nature.
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Nixon was a support of environmental reform.
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13 fires on the river helped to create the Clean Water Act.
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The act required all federal agencies to provide environmental assessments and environmental impact statements.
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The EPA writes and enforces regulations in conjunction with laws passed by Congress. The Clean Air Act was passed to limit air pollution on a national level and requires the EPA to pass regulations to protect public health.
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OPEC declared an oil embargo on the US in response to the US aiding Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
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CFCs are compounds used as solvents, refridgerants, and propellants. They have been phased out of use due to their depletion of the ozone layer.
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FIFRA is a federal law designed to regulate pesticides to protect consumers and the environment.
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The Act is widely known for standards set for the treatment/storage/disposal of harzardous waste.
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The Clean Water Act calls for the removal of toxic waste from waterways, eliminaing future pollution, and assurance fr safety for recreational activities.
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The Act creates programs for regulating active coal mines and reclaming abandoned ones.
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Expansion of the Love Canal neighborhood encroached onto land where harzardous waste was buried. Residents began to fall ill due to contamination from the waste. Lois Gibbs is an activist involved in the Love Canal crisis.
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3 Mile Island was the worst commercial nuclear incident to occur in the United States.
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The Act created 43,585,000 acres of national park land in Alaska.
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The law creates the ATSDR, tasked with the cleanup of hazardous waste releases to avoid endangering public health/ safety.
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Large amounts of toxic gases were released from a pesticide plant, with about 20,000 total casualties.
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Nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant created a cloud of radiation that drifted over Eastern Europe (Geiger counter tripped in Sweden led to discovery).
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The Montreal Protocol is desgined to slow ozone depletion by phasing out substances associated with its depletion.
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The oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck the Prince William's Reef, releasing almost 750,000 of crude oil into the ocean.
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The law sets new standards regarding clean energy use and energy efficiency in the United States.
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The Kyoto Protocol sets mandatory obligations on industrialized countries for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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