History of The Environmental Movement

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1. Who was the first scientist to suggest that carbon dioxide from industrial processes could create a "greenhouse effect"? Carl Sagan Svante Arrhenius Joseph Fourier Frank Rowland

2. Which British scientist discovered the hole in the ozone layer? Frank Rowland Joe Farman James Lovelock Irving Stowe

3. In 1967 Lynn White located the "historical roots of our ecological crisis" in what? the exporting to other nations of an American way-of-life that emphasizes consumption a Western view toward nature rooted in the book of Genesis, which suggests man should have dominion over the animals and subdue the earth an over-reliance on technology the West's increased separation from nature as nations became more urban and industrial

4. What movie depicting a near meltdown and safety problems at an American nuclear power plant was released merely days before the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania? The China Syndrome The Sum of All Fears Fat Man and Little Boy The Day After

5. What Ronald Reagan administration official famously suggested that a solution to the depletion of the ozone layer was to don a hat and sunglasses and wear long-sleeves? Secretary of Energy Don Hodel Secretary of the Interior James Watt EPA director William Ruckelshaus EPA director Anne Gorsuch

6. What was the name of the town in India where an industrial disaster poisoned thousands when a Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked methyl isocyanate gas? Mumbai Bhopal Nagpur Bangalore

7. Who or what does the "Radium Girls" refer to? a group of women who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II as secretaries. five female factory workers who sued U.S. Radium Corporation in 1927 for hazardous workplace conditions. The girls worked there painting watch dials with radium so they would glow in the dark. young girls whom the U.S. government secretly dosed with radium to discover if it had any health benefits during the 1950s. a movie that came out in 1946 about a group of girls who are beautiful and dangerous, i.e., radioactive.

8. The U.S. town that was evacuated after dangerous levels of dioxin were found in its soil in 1982 was Love Canal, New York Afton, North Carolina Triana, Alabama Times Beach, Missouri

9. The assassination of Chico Mendes in Brazil in 1988 brought attention to what environmental issue? deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon desertification in the Northeastern region of Brazil growing levels of air pollution in São Paulo exploitation of natural resources by foreigners

10. What environmental organization did Edward Abbey's novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang inspire"? Friends of the Earth Earth Liberation Front Earth First! Greenpeace