2. ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY TIMELINE
Based on this web site create a chart that identify main environmental problems during each time period.

3. Evolution of Environmental Problems
1st generation: point source air/water
Relatively easy to treat with technology/investment
2nd generation: non-point source, acid rain
Difficult to fix locally, regional cooperation necessary
3rd generation: global climate change, biodiversity loss
Impossible to fix nationally, need global government assistance

4. Environmental Movement in the USA
The Conservation Movement
Modern Environmental Movement
Global Environmentalism

5. The Conservation Movement
1864 publication of Man and Nature by George Perkins Marsh (Concerns about the destruction and wasting of natural resources in the American West)
Considered a founder of environmental science
Credited for beginning Conservation Movement
Largely because of the book, national forest reserves were established To protect timber supplies & endangered watersheds

6. The Conservation Movement
Two schools of thought
Utilitarian conservation: President Teddy Roosevelt & Gifford Pinchot {forest should be saved to provide homes & jobs for people , resources should be used for the greatest good}
Biocentric preservation: Emerson & john Muir {nature deserves to exist for its own sake}
President Teddy Roosevelt established the framework of the national forest, park and wildlife refuge system

7. TRIVIA When was the first national forest reserve established in the USA? What is the name?
March 1, 1872
YELLOWSTONE

8. Modern Environmental Movement
1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Described how DDT entered the food chain and accumulated in the fatty tissues of animals, including human beings, and caused cancer and genetic damage.
Created new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention
Considered by many to be the founder of the modern environmental movement

9. Modern Environmental Movement
Hallmarked by new techniques
ACTION (Activism) & SOLUTION (Research)
(Activism) in the form of litigation, intervention, publishing and use of media
(Research) establishing links between science, technology and society
Formation of env groups , passage of new laws and creation of governmental agencies

10. Global Environmentalism
Wave of ecological concern combining environmental protection with social justice
Global village concept
One planet one home
Working together to achieve sustainable development

11. In Class Activity Use any source to Define social justice
Define sustainable development
Answer these questions
What is a fair share of resources?
How do human rights relate to the environment?
Why is sustainability the goal of environmental science?

12. ANY QUESTIONS?