Going Green

1
Going Green

• Birth of the Environmental Movement
• 21.4

2
(No Transcript)
3
Early American Efforts

• Teddy Roosevelt created first National Parks
• Urban Parks created at the turn of the 1900s
• Hippies go back to nature to avoid modern
  society

4
Early Activists Organize

• Sierra Club founded by John Muir in 1892
• Wilderness Society -founded in 1935
• Focused on Conservation originally, later
  expanded into all areas of environment

5
The World Is Stunned

• 1952 coal smog floats through London
• 12,000 Killed by asphyxiation!!!

6
Rachel Carson

• 1962 Wrote Silent Spring
• Described impact of pesticides on plants, animals
  and people
• Claimed people were impacting the environment
• Public Shocked!!!

7
Carsons Object Lesson

• 1969 Clevelands Cuyahoga River catches fire
  (industrial waste oil sludge)
• Activists organize around this event, fired up
  over pollution

8
(No Transcript)
9
Lake Erie Dead Zones
10
Congress Takes Action

• Bans DDT for use as a pesticide
• Birth defects
• Soft Eggs for birds

11
Earth Day

• WI senator Gaylord Nelson creates to bring issues
  to govnt.
• 20 Million take part in action

12
First Earth Day
13
Nixon the new Teddy Roosevelt

• 1970 Environmental Protection Agency
• Protect the entire ecological chain
• The Clean Air Act
• The Clean Water Act
• Endangered Species Act
• 1974 - Ford continues w/ Nuclear Regulatory
  Commission

14
The Carter Years Green Gets Dirty

• Love Canal Toxic waste from NY chemical plants
  caused birth defects cancer in children
• Homeowners take EPA officials hostage until
  Carter buys their homes
• 1980 - Congress creates Superfund to clean up
  environmental hazards

15
The China Syndrome

• March, 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant in
  PA began to meltdown
• Reactor shut down Pres. Carter toured plant to
  reassure public
• US TERRIFIED of nuclear power
• Gov bans new plants

iCue Three Mile Island
16
(No Transcript)
17
Cold War Politics the Environment

• Communist economies create environmental
  disasters
• No incentive to change production methods
• Unresponsive to demands so unconcerned w/ public
  outcry
• Lack of free press to inform
• Fear of failing govnt demands

18
Pollution in China
19
Pollution in China
20
Pollution in China
21
Pollution in China
22
Pollution in China
23
Environmentalism In Your Era

• Exxon Valdez - 1989
• Global Cooling then Global Warming
• Climate Change now
• Oil Drilling ANWR
• Sea Level Change
• Mass Extinctions as seas land warms

24
BPGulf CoastOil SpillApril 2010
25
206 million gallons spilled
26
Present Day Japan Terror-2011

• During a visit to the doctor to check for cancer
  you will be exposed to a maximum of 4 Rads

The predicted range of the nuclear fallout if the
Fukushima Daiichi plant has a meltdown
27
The Debate

• Is it happening at all?
• Private Property Rights vs. Public Health
• Is this a natural cycle caused by solar cycles or
  man made?
• How should US gov. behave if it puts US business
  in competitive disadvantage w/ world?

28
(No Transcript)