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31 Cards in this Set
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Thomas Malthus - 1798 |
Carrying capacity |
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Henry David Thoreau- 1845 |
Naturalist author of "Walden, the life in the woods" |
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Yellow stone national park - 1872 |
nations 1st national park |
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London fog - 1880 |
coal in air lead to 11,000 people getting sick |
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sierra club -1892 |
John Muir, preservationist- land should be set aside for hiking |
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1990- Lacey act |
1st law to protect animals |
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1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt |
"golden age of conservation" - "leave things for future generations" |
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1903- Pelican Island |
1st national wildlife refuge- Paul Kroegel was in charge |
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1905- Forest service |
Gifford pincnot- agriculture rationing and timber permits |
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1934-1940 - dust bowl |
ineffective farming techniques led to dust which led to famine and drought |
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1948- Donora,Pennsylvania |
deadly smog bc temp. inversion (warm air sandwich) which trapped pollution |
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1953- Minamata, Japan |
mercury dropped in Bay which lead to mercury poisoning |
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1962- Silent Springs |
Rachel Carson (author)- effects of DDT pesticide on birds |
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1965- 1969 - Pollution of Lake Erie |
hub for dumping- pollution |
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1968- Population bomb |
paul Erlich (author) - warning about famine, war etc. bc of over population |
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1968- Tragedy of the Commons |
Jarret Hardin (author)- human nature is to over exploit shared resources |
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1969- Cuyahoga River Fire |
river caught on fire due to pollution |
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1970- Clean air act |
Richard nixion passed act, limited amount of 'stuff' companies can put into air |
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1970- EPA established |
focused on water, air DDT |
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1970- 1st earth day |
organized by college students and professors, april 22 |
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1972- Clean Water act |
limited pollution companies could put into water |
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1973- OPEC oil embargo |
boycotted selling gas to USA |
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1978- Love Canal |
canal became a landfill of chemicals, city was built on it, heavy rain cause chemicals to surface causing baby defects, all home built there were torn down |
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1979- Three mile island |
worst nuclear disaster in US. increase in nuclear power plants esp. in Pennsylvania- one of the rectors had a core melt down |
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1984- Bhopal, India |
world worst industrial disaster- pesticide plant released 42 tons of toxins |
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1986- Chernobyl |
reactor number 4 exploded in russia (?)- fall out spread in atmosphere |
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1987- Montreal Protocol |
international treaty to protect ozone |
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1989- Exxon Valdez |
oil spill, one of the most devastating human caused environmental disasters |
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1997- Kyoto protocol |
international treaty to stabilize of 4 greenhouse gasses in atmosphere to protect climate system. wanted a decrease in the use of the4 greenhouse gasses. USA did not sign the treaty |
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2010- Deep water Horizon |
explosion of oil, largest accidental marine oil spill |
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2011- Fukushima, Japan |
9.0 earthquake lead to a tsunami which lead to radiation leaking into environment |
