disaster events study guide

Montreal protocol

Meeting to limit ozone depleting substances it helped countries come together and work on environmental science problems

Manua loa

Showed evidence that carbon dioxide was increasing- raised awareness of house gases and climate change

Great pacific garbage

It was a plastic garbage the size of Texas found in the middle of the Pacific Ocean- our waste can create issue

Hurricane Katrina

The worst cat 5 hurricane that cost severe damage- raised awareness for climate change

Londong smog

Burning coal created toxic smog that killed thousands of people- people’s actions have a consequence on the environment

Minimata bay disaster

Dumped toxic mercury into a bay and caused fish and people to die and it also caused infertility or birth problems- diluting toxins into our oceans won’t make them go away

Silent spring

Book that talks about DDT and how it kills birds- substances need to be tested before using

Cuyahaga fire

Fossil fuel pollution- creation of EPA

Lorax

Children’s book that talks about the collapse of tree pollution

Endangered species act

1st law to protect animals from extinction- we need to avoid organisms to go extinct

Bhopal disaster

Gas leak toxic- led to questions of who is accountable when things happen

Chernobyl Nuclear power plant

Nuclear power meltdown with radiation spread in Europe- people understood how dangerous nuclear power can be

An inconvenient truth

AI gore lecture film that raised awareness of climate change - put the term climate change into the everyday world

Deep water horizon oil spill 2010

It exploded and sank in the gulf- change policy safety protocols

Dust bowl

Ecological disaster during the. 1930s in North America cause by a severe drought- shifter americas view on law management

Life centered world view

all living things human animals and plants have value and deserve care.

Ecosystem service

Bees pollinating flowers —> helps us grow fruits and vegetables

Exhaustible resource

Oil

Human centered world view

Nature matters because it helps us and we matter the most

Earth centered

Everything living or nonliving has value and humans are just one part of it

Natural resource

Trees

No renewable resource

Coal it takes millions of years to form

Renewable resource

sunlight it naturally comes back

Non point source pollution

Runoff from a farm carrying fertilizer into a river

Point source pollution

Wastewater coming out of a factory pipe directly into a lake