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James Hansen is the ‘father of global warming’. His own global climate model helped people understand climate and human effects. He is a climatologist. He’s famous for his research in climatology and his 1988 testimony on climate change. His congressional testimony helped raise awareness for global warming but he did unfortunately he got arrested for being a climate activist/protesting. Source: Colombia Climate School Website
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Minamata disease is methyl mercury poisoning that was found in humans who ingested fish and shellfish that was found in the water. The symptom were serious included neurological damage. Source: National Library of Medicine
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Rachel Carson, a female scientist, wrote a book called Silent Spring in hope to bring awareness to the issue. Rachel helped make a development in the modern environmental movement. Her scientific perspective helped create a widespread debate about the scientific community which led to new policies to protect our earth. “Silent” is a reference that it will be a quiet spring due to animals being poisoned. Source: ACS:Chemistry for life
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This was a landmark federal law that marks the US’s government’s effort to regulate air pollution, wanting to establish national air quality standards. This legislation made a shared federal and state role in protecting public health and the environment from airborne pollutants.
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Due to Rachel Carson’s book: Silent Spring, the book helped make a change. This was a concern for former Senator, Gaylord Nelson. He hired Denis Hayes, who was a young activist to organize the First Earth Day. Hayes built a national staff to promote events across the land and the effort went to include a variety of different organizations, faith groups, and more. They changed the name to Earth Day which got the attention of others. Source: earth day.org
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A nuclear power plant went out of control during a test which caused an explosion and fire that demolished the reactor and building which also released huge amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. Source: Chernobyl Accident 1986
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Julia Butterfly was an activist who had a love for nature and the economy. She lived in a 200 foot tall Redwood tree to protect and help prevent people cutting down old and ancient Redwood trees. She wanted to save the local trees and community gardens. She states that the issues and challenges were endless. Source: (slides) and Juliabutterflyhill.com
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Dame Ellen MacAruther because the fastest solo sailor to sail around the world. After, she set up the foundation in her name to the transition to a circular economy. She also pivoted to environmental advocacy Source: (slides) and Ellen MacAruther Foundation
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Former US President, Al Gore, makes a film about the issue of how humans are ruining the planet and climate change.
We watch a video on how Gore’s video is incorrect and what exactly happened within the Inconvenient Truth. Source: (slides) and the video provided on the slides -
This was another nuclear accident with a nuclear plant in Japan. An earthquake set off a tsunami which caused damage resulting in a meltdown of three reactors in the plant. It took many years to remove Source: (textbook)
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Death Valley is a place where the weather is constantly affected due to climate change. The weather is deathly hot but there is so much rain throughout August - May
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A little boy fell into a gorilla enclosure, and the gorilla aka Harambe, he started becoming agitated and the zoo shot Harambe to protect the child Source: textbook and slides