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These parks being established helped recognize how important it is for us as people to conserve natural areas.
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It helped emphasize how food chains have the ability to easily accumulate toxins into higher levels of the food chain. This even includes humans.
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Allowed public awareness to grow for many different organizations. This includes WWFN, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth forming.
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It helped people realize and accept how toxic and bad things like pesticides are for us.
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The first Earth Day had 20 million Americans take part in it and helped launch environmental activism. (10 Key Moments That Shaped Environmental History)
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It helped emphasize how food chains have the ability to easily accumulate toxins into higher levels of the food chain. This even includes humans.
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Even though it was already created, curbside recycling took off in 1980 starting in Woodbury, New Jersey.
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It was a nuclear fallout that affected millions of people.
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This event help make environmentally friendly products and recycling more popular
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It helped improve water and sanitation, energy supply issues, health, agricultural abuse, and biodiversity reduction.
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It helped 174 countries to reduce carbon emissions
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It brought awareness to global warming.
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Paper “The Future We Want” published.