Research Task:
History of the Environmental Movement
How historical influences have shaped the development of the modern environmental
movements.
Research on the following and write a short paragraph on each focusing on what these are,
when they occurred, and why they are significant (Hint: magnitude of tragedy, any policy
change/ banning etc.) to the modern environmental movement.
Environmental movement
 Green revolution
 Kyoto protocol
 Chipko movement
 Whaling (save the whale)
 Founding of IUCN
Hypothesis
 Gaia Hypothesis
Reading material
 Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Published
Environmental disasters
 London smog
 Minamata Bay disaster
 Bhopal gas tragedy
 Chernobyl
 Include Population increases (1st billion, 2nd billion, and so on)
Film/Documentary
 Film ' Inconvenient Truth' by Documentary by Al Gore, former US vice-president,
describing global warming
Add some more (at least 2-3) events to the above list.