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Earth Day or Doomsday? You Decide!
This woman is credited with starting the environmental movement with her last book published in 1962 shortly before her death while fighting breast cancer
What was the title of her book?
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0% 1. Earth in the Balance2. The Population Bomb3. Cosmos4. Silent Spring5. The Living Planet
And the author of Silent Spring is:
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“Silent Spring was a cry in the wilderness that changed history.”Al Gore
Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.
What year was the first Earth Day celebrated?
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Five months before Earth Day, on Sunday, November 30, 1969, The New York Times carried a lengthy article
by Gladwin Hill reporting on the astonishing proliferation of environmental events:
"Rising concern about the environmental crisis is sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam...a national day of observance of environmental problems...is being planned for next spring...when a nationwide environmental 'teach-
in'...coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned...."
What year was the Environmental Protection Agency established? EPA
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William D. Ruckelshaus being sworn in by President Nixon, Dec. 1970
What is the current, best estimate of the world’s human population?
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The population of the U.S?
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And it grows in the U.S. at the rate of 4 more every minute!
For the world its 38x that!
220,000 more every day!6,600,000 every month!!80,300,000 every year!!!
Edward Abbey, environmentalist and author of “The Monkey Wrench Gang” proposed this for voluntary birth control:
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children in the household.3. A brand new Ford Mustang in exchange for
reversible sterilization at the age of puberty4. Free abortions5. Permanent sterilization for the poor and
underprivileged.
Five Ways to StabilizePopulation Growth
• Contraceptives
• Literacy
• Sex Ed
• Gender Equality
• Dynamic Development
Four Other Ways!
• Starvation• Disease• War• Natural Disasters
ContraceptivesThe U.N. Population Fund estimates that
215 million women worldwide who desire modern contraceptives are deprived of them. Access to contraceptives would reduce unintended pregnancies by more than two-thirds, from 75 million to 22
million per year, and save $5.1 billion in pre- and postnatal healthcare.
LiteracyThere’s an inverse relationship between
literacy and fertility rates. Literate womentend to have smaller, healthier families with
dramaticallydecreased infant-mortality rates. Educated
women alsohave increased access to economic
opportunities andare less likely to bear children before they can
afford to.
Sex EdNearly half of the world’s population is under
age 25, which means that GenerationZ’s reproductive decisions will reverberate for years
to come. Comprehensivesex ed is an important step
toward limiting teen pregnancy. By having a child, anAmerican woman increases her CO2 legacy
six-fold.
Gender EqualityIn many cultures, women are deprived of
essential human rights. They lack suffrage,education, and control over their own fertility. Plus, childbrides are less likely to exercise decision-making power
because of their economic dependency. Female empowermentis essential to slowing population growth .
Dynamic DevelopmentIn societies in tropical wilderness areas,
where welfare is tied directly to the land, aidgroups are promoting a development approach called
population, health, and environment (PHE), which integratesimproved access to health services with models
for sustainable resource use.
When was the Endangered Species Act passed into law?
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I HAVE today signed S. 1983, the Endangered Species Act of 1973. At a time when Americans are more concerned than ever with conserving our natural resources, this legislation provides the Federal Government with needed authority to protect an irreplaceable part of our national heritage—threatened…………
What species was involved in the first case challenging the Endangered Species Act to
make it to the U.S. Supreme Court?
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Snail Darter (Percina Tanasi)
Of all the water on planet Earth, what percentage is fresh (no salt)?
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86% of the world’s surface fresh water can be found in our Great Lakes and Lake Baikal in Russia!
Fresh and unpolluted water accounts for 0.003% of total water available globally.
One in eight people in the world do not have access to safe water!
The Earth’s greatest human use of fresh water is for:
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Agriculture uses 69% of the world’s fresh water primarily through irrigation
Industry and hydroelectric power = 21%
Home use = 10%
Of the following home uses, which one consumes the most water?
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The number one greenhouse gas in quantity and Infra-red reflectivity is:
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Which product requires the most water to produce?
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Water Footprints of Common FoodsProduct Amount in Gallons
1 cup of tea 8.6 US gal
1 imperial pint of beer 42.3 US gal
1 glass of wine 31.7 US gal
1 glass of milk 52.8 US gal
1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of beef 3,962.6 US gal (450 gal. ¼ lb.)
1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of poultry 1,585.0 US gal
250 grams (8.8 oz) packet of M&M's 304.6 US gal
575 grams (20.3 oz) jar of Dolmio pasta sauce 53.4 US gal
Greenhouse Gas Formula
Contribution
Water vapor H2O 36 – 72 % Carbon dioxide CO2 9 – 26 % Methane CH4 4 - 9 % Ozone O3 3 – 7 %
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When was the last major extinction of life forms on the planet (75%)
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If present trendscontinue one half of all species of life on earth will
be extinct in less than 100 years, as a result ofhabitat destruction, pollution, invasive species,
and climate change.
The Current Mass Extinction:
Human beings are currently causing the greatest
mass extinction of species since the extinction of
the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
The agreement, known as the Nagoya Protocol, sets a goal of cutting the current extinction rate by half or more by 2020. The earth is losing species at 100 to 1,000 times the historical average, according to
scientists who call the current period the worst since the dinosaurs were lost 65 million years ago.
Mass Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say!
"The speed at which species are being lost is much faster than any we've seen in the past -- including those [extinctions] related to meteor collisions," said Daniel Simberloff, a University of Tennessee ecologist and prominent expert in biological diversity who participated in the museum's survey. [Note: the last mass extinction caused by a meteor collision was that of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.]
The number one cause of species’ extinction is:
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Earth Day or Doomsday? You Decide!
In the year 2032 do you think the planet will be:
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polluted water, no more fossil fuels, etc. The end of civilization as we now know it!
