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Minamata disease was first discovered in the city of Minamata Kumamoto prefecture Japan in 1956. The symptoms were numbness in hands and feet overall muscle weakness. In the extreme cases though insanity paralysis, coma, and death. The disease was caused by the release of methylmercury it was in the industrial wastewater from a factory that was owned by Chisso corporation.
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Silent Spring is a book that Rachel Carson published on September 27, 1962; the book was about environmental harm. It is caused to stop use of DDT which is a pesticide that was used by soldiers during World War II. Rachel Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation. With the public officials accepting the industry’s marking claims. Her book Silent Spring brought environmental concerns to America.
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The Stockholm conference was the first united nations declaration on the global environment. It’s the consists of the 26 principles that led to the creation of the United Nations environment programmed. Which that laid the foundation for the future global environment governance.
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The primary law in the United States is to protect and conserve imperiled species to extinction therefore economic growth and development. The ESA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973
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Love Canal is environmental disasters that involve toxics that are from industrial workers. That can be caused by nervous disorders and cancers and it can be dangerous for nursing mothers
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Methyl isocyanate is a pungent, colorless, and verry flammable the reason why it’s used is to produce pesticides and evaporates into a deadly gas almost instantly.
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the Chernobyl meltdown happened in 1986 at the nuclear power station in Chernobyl in the Soviet Union it was the worst disaster in the history the chain reaction in the core got out of control. There were several explosions that triggered a large fireball that blew off the heavy steel and concrete lid of the reactor.
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Montreal Protocol is the import of the products produced with containing controlled and the substances.
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Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty, and they extended in 1992 with united nations and framework convention on climate change and it reduces green house gases.
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The documentary film inconvenient truth was released in 2006 in America the documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim. The documentary was the vice president of the United States
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