People in Environmental Science Flashcards
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Rachel Carson
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- 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 Ehrilch
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- a biologist that published The Population Bomb in 1968
- discussed overpopulation and food production issues for future generations
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Garrett Hardin
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- published “The Tragedy of the Commons” in the journal Science in 1968
- argued that rational people will exploit shared resources (commons)
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Aldo Leopard
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- 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
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- won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for “Green Belt” movement – planting trees in Kenya that provided food and fuel, and improved soil erosion and desertification
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Thomas Malthus
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- a British Economist who said, “human population cannot continue to increase”
- Consequences will be war, famine & and pestilence (disease)
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John Muir
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- 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
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- 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
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- president of the United States from 1901 to 1909, well known for his conservation efforts
- He established the first National Wildlife Refuge at Pelican Island.
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Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina
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- in 1974, determined that CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) destroy stratospheric ozone (which contains 90% of the ozone)
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E.O. Wilson
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- biologist who co-coined , with Robert MacArther, the theory of island biogeography, which identifies factors that regulate species richness on islands (the number of species present in a sample)
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- 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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Rachel Carson
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- a biologist that published The Population Bomb in 1968
- discussed overpopulation and food production issues for future generations
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Paul Ehrilch
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- published “The Tragedy of the Commons” in the journal Science in 1968
- argued that rational people will exploit shared resources (commons)
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Garrett Hardin
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- 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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Aldo Leopard
