Evironmental Movement Matrix

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Environmental Movement Matrix

Choose five items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1970s:

|Cuyahoga River, OH (Cleveland) fire 1969 |Conservationism vs. environmentalism |

|Love Canal |Acid rain |

|Silent Spring |Ozone layer |

|Population Bomb |Rainforests |

|Endangered Species Act (1966, 1969, & 1973) |Depletion of fossil fuels |

|Clean Water Act (1972, 1977) |Climate change |

|Event |Significance |

|Population Bomb |Book that warned of mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other |

| |major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. |

|Depletion of fossil |Gas crisis in the 70s led to survivalist thinking and brought the idea that these luxuries were finite. |

|fuels | |

|Rainforests |Throughout the 70s miles and miles of deforestation in the rainforest took place for cattle farms. So much so |

| |that it was limited greatly...