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| published Silent Spring in 1962; documented environmental damage done by DDT and other pesticides which heightened public awareness at start of modern environmental movement |
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| founded Sierra Club in 1892; fought unsuccessfully to prevent the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park |
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| first chief of US Forest Service; advocated managing resources for multiple use using principles of sustainable yield |
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| published "The Tragedy of the Commons" in journal Science in 1968; argued rational people will exploit shared resources (commons) |
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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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| Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina |
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| 1974--> determine that CFCs destroy stratospheric (good) ozone |
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