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11 Cards in this Set
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Rachel Carson |
Published Silent Spring in 1962, documented the environmental damage done by DDT and other pesticides. This book heightened public awareness at the start of the modern environmental movement. |
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Paul Ehrlich |
Biologist who published The Population Bomb in 1968; argued that rational people will exploit resources. |
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Garrett Hardin |
Published "The Tragedy of the Commons" in the journal Science in 1968; argued that rational people will exploit shared resources. |
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Aldo Leopold |
Wrote A Sand County Almanac, published a year after his death in 1948; promoted a "Land Ethic" in which humans are ethically responsible for serving as the protectors of nature. |
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Wangari Maathai |
Won the 2004 Peace Prize for "Green Belt" movement -- planting trees in Kenya that provided food and fuel. Also improved soil erosion and desertification. |
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Thomas Malthus |
A British Economist who said "human population cannot continue to increase. Consequences will be war, famine, and pestilence." |
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John Muir |
Founded Sierra Club in 1892; fought unsuccessfully to prevent the damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. |
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Gifford Pinchot |
First chief of the United States Forest Service, advocated managing resources for multiple use using principles of sustainable yield. |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
President of the United States from 1901 1909, well-known for conservation efforts. He established the first National Wildlife Refuge at Pelican Island. |
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Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina |
In 1974 determined that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. |
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E.O. Wilson |
Biologist who co-coined, with Robert MacArthur, the theory of island biogeography, which identifies factors that regulate specifies richness on islands. |
