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ESS Historical Influencers
Influences have shaped the development of the modern environmental movement
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Environmental Studies
12th Grade
09/19/2021

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Historical Influencer
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Important figure or event that has shaped the development of the environmental movement.
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Input examples
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education,cultural influences, religious doctrine, media
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Paradigms, decisions, perspectives, courses of action determined by processing these inputs. economic and socio-political contexts.

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Input
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Influencers that impact of the environment.
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Output
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Outcome or result of action taken.
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EVS
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Environmental value system that equates to the perspectives on how indiviuals view and take action that impact the environment.
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Rachel Carson
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Wrote the book Silent Spring to bring awareness of DDT  pesticide affect on organisms.
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James Lovelock
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Created the Gaia Hypothesis on the Earth as a single living system that self regulates it self. Harming one part affects the whole system.
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Fukushima Disaster
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Nuclear power plant in Japan in which the power & cooling system cut off and reactor cords melted. Poor safety checks led to need for evacuation but poor displacement lresulted in to many deaths
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BP Oil Spill
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Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico causing water pollution that affected aquatic organisms.
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Chernobyl Disaster
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Nuclear power plant incident causing massive radiation material spread throughout the environment of a section of Europe.
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Rio Earth Summit
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United nation conference conventions on environmental development  dealing with climate change, biodiversity, forestry and recommended a list of development practices called Agenda 21. It gave the concept of sustainable development to be combined economic growth with ecological responsibility.
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