ENVI 300 Environmental Issues

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ENVI 300Environmental Issues

• Dr. Ron Kaufmann
• Shiley Center 274 (x5904)
• Office Hrs Mo 1230-130, Tu 230-500, Fr
  1230-200
• kaufmann_at_sandiego.edu
• rkaufmann_at_gmail.com
• www.sandiego.edu/kaufmann/envi300/envi300.html

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First Assignment Tell Me About Yourself

• Name (given and nick)
• Major(s)/minor(s)
• Class standing (Jr, Sr, Super-Sr!)
• Why taking this class?
• Group/Presentation skills
• E-mail address
• Environmental issues three most important

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• The Environmental Movement in the US
• Some Major Players
• John Muir (1838-1914)
• Founder of Sierra Club
• Called for preservation of natural wilderness
• Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946)
• First head of US Forest Service under T.
  Roosevelt
• Staunch advocate of conservation
• Greatest good of the greatest number in the long
  run
• Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
• Land Ethic
• Holistic management of wilderness
• People responsible for maintaining environment
  and repairing damage

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• The Environmental Movement in the US
• Some Major Players
• Rachel Carson
• Silent Spring (1962)
• Described negative environmental impacts of
  pesticides
• Galvanized modern environmental movement
• Paul Ehrlich
• The Population Bomb (1968)
• Described potential environmental consequences of
  rapidly expanding human population
• Garrett Hardin
• Tragedy of the Commons (1968)
• Lifeboat Ethics (1974)

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• The Environmental Movement in the US
• Important Environmental Legislation and Events
• 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
  EPA OSHA formed, revised Clean Air Act (CAA),
  1st Earth Day
• 1972 Clean Water Act (CWA), Ocean Dumping Act,
  Marine Mammal Protection Act DDT banned in U.S.
• 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA)
• 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act
• 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, Magnuson
  Fishery Conservation and Management Act
• 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response,
  Compensation, Liability Act (CERCLA/Superfund)
• 1987 Montreal Protocol
• 1990 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  (IPCC)
• 1992 UN Conference on Environment Development
  (Earth Summit) Biodiversity Treaty
• 1997 Kyoto Protocol
• 2005 Kyoto Protocol came into effect