environmental timeline

10,000 BP
Agricultural revolution


1872
First National Park Established


1940s
Green revolution & sharp population
rise
 
1960s
NGOs formed including WWF and 
Greenpeace
 
1979
James Lovelock publishes Gaia

Mid 1980s
Thinning ice sheets & ozone hole 
discovered

1990s
Greater awareness of green issues & products
Early 1800s
Industrial revolution


1914
Passenger pigeon goes extinct in US

1956 - 1968
Minamata Bay Disaster


1972
First Earth summit.Planned for every 10 years

1984
Bhopal disaster

1987
Montreal protocol. CFC use
decreases.

2006
Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" released
Late 1800s
Thoreau & Muir publish conservation books

1940s
Dustbowl in North America


1962
Rachel Caron publishes Silent Spring


1975
CITES formed by IUCN to protect endangered species

1986
Chernobyl disaster

1992
Rio Earth Summit & Kyoto
Protocol

2011
World Human Population Reached 7 Billion
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Notable advocates for environmental protection and sustainability include:
  • Wendell Berry (farmer, philosopher)




  • David

    Brower     (writer, activist)




  • Lester
    Brown     (environmental analyst, author)
  • Paul R. Ehrlich (population biologist)



  • Hans-Josef Fell (German Green
    Party     member)



  • Jane

    Fonda     (actor
  • Tetsunari Iida (sustainable energy advocate)



  • Aldo

    Leopold     (ecologist)



  • James Lovelock (scientist)
  • George Monbiot (journalist)



  • John
    Muir     (naturalist, activist)



  • Ralph

    Nader     (activist)
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  • Helen Caldicott (medical doctor)




  • Rachel Carson (biologist, writer)




  • Prince
    Charles     (British Royal Family member)
  • Mizuho Fukushima (politician, activist)



  • Peter
    Garrett     (musician, politician)



  • Al
    Gore     (former Vice President of the United States)
  • Amory

    Lovins     (energy policy analyst)



  • Hunter Lovins (environmentalist)



  • Caroline Lucas (politician)
  • Gaylord Nelson (politician)



  • Alan

    Pears     (environmental
    consultant     and energy
    efficiency pioneer    )



  • Gifford Pinchot (first chief of the USFS)
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