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Environmentalist famous for his Land Ethic essay and advocated for strong relationship between humans and environment.
Aldo Leopald
Father of biodiversity. Forerunner in study of ants and socialbiology. Noted for environmental advocacy.
E.O Wilson
Warned about dangers of human overpopulation on earths natural resources and welfare state through his essay “ the tragedy of commons”
Garrett Hardin
US senator in democratic party. founder of earth day
Gaylord Nelson
first cheif of us forest service. advocated conservation of resources.
Gifford Pinchot
Walden. Leaving civilization to live in solitude on the banks of nearby Walden Pond. Thoreau was an environmentalist who could see the consequences of unrestrained and irresponsible consumption of resources.
Henry David Thoreau
She worked on conservation and animal welfare issues, and she created the Jane Goodall Institute in order to analyze human impacts on conservation
Jane Goodall
He was the founder of the Sierra Club and is known for “ father of the national parks”
John Muir
He helped launch the Green Revolution. Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for role in humanitarian science
Norman Borlaug
American biologist who warned about the affects of overpopulation and the effects of limited resources, wrote “ The Population Bomb”
Paul Ehrlich
defended natural world against pollution. known book Silent Spring, concerned the use of pestcides and its effect on world
Rachel Carson
Discovered that CFC’s contribute to ozone depletion and discovered the thinning of the ozone above antarctica
Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina
Created the U.S forest service and established many national forests, federal bird reserves, national game preserves, ad national parks
Theodore Roosevelt
“An Essay on The Principle of Population” This places emphasis on birth rates and marriage rates. Discusses distress of resources as population increases. Spoke upon positive and preventative checks as solutions.
Thomas Malthus
Founded Green Belt movement, focuses on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women’s rights.
Wangari Maathai
Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world, it has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by soviet irrigation projects; now it is disappearing.
Aral Sea
A large area of air pollution the covers south Asia periodically, and is thought to the the cause of over 2 million deaths a year.
Asian Brown Cloud
Considered the world’s worst industrial disaster, Bhopal (1984) involves the gas leakage of a pesticides and other toxic chemicals in the Indian city aftecting those living nearby in the shanty towns
Bhopal, India
The explosion and subsequent meltdown of one reactor was a catastrophic event that directly affected hundreds of thousands of people. Due to the radiation, birth defects among people living in the area have increased dramatically.
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Caused by a combination of factors including pesticides and the invasive varroa mite, a pest. When a majority of worker bees of a colony of bees disappear. Queen, immature bees, and nurse bees are left behind with food.
Colony Collapse Disorder
Cuyahoga River Fire
A fire in Ohio, that occurred in 1969 that helped support the Clean Water Act
Dead Zones (Gulf of Mexico / Chesapeake Bay)
Dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world’s oceans and large lakes, caused by excessive nutrients entering waters, resulting in blooms of algae. The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is at the mouth of the Mississippi River, can cover up to 6,000-7,000 square miles, and threatens the commercial and recreational fisheries in the area.
Deep Water Horizon
An offshore drilling rig that erupted and exploded in 2010 when the Depreventer failed. The resulting oil spill that BP was ultimately charged for harmed wildlife.
“Dirty Thirties” Wind erosion and drought led to severe dust storms. Damaged ecology and agriculture in prairies in North America
Dust Bowl
Resulted from an Exxon oil tanker hitting a reef while shipping oil from Alaska to California; it is the second largest American oil spill in open waters resulting in the death of thousands of sea otters, seals, and seabirds, and the company was forced to pay millions of dollars.
Exxon Valdez
The Flint River has been contaminated because of fecal coliform bacteria, low dissolved oxygen, and toxic substances. The water was not properly treated when the city tapped into the river as a water source leading to lead from pipes also entering the supply. Exposure has lead to impaired cognition, behavioral disorders, hearing problems, delayed puberty, reduced fetal growth, and impact to the hearts, kidneys and nerves of the citizens.
Flint Water Crisis
A 2011 nuclear power plant disaster caused by a tsunami that led to nuclear meltdowns and explosions. While there were no immediate fatalities,
Fukushima Daiichi
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a large collection of marine debris, mostly plastic, in the North Pacific Ocean that disturbs marine food webs.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Love Canal was a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY whose residents began experiencing health effects in the 1970s from an abandoned canal site that polluted groundwater. It led to the creation of CERCLA, which governs the management of hazardous waste.
Love Canal Housing Development
Minamata disease is a neurological disorder caused by severe methyl mercury poisoning that was first described in the inhabitants of Minamata Bay, Japan and resulted from their eating of fish contaminated with mercury industrial waste. Some symptoms are numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, and damage to hearing and speech.
Minamata , Japan
