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1.  What final act did President Clinton sign into law?

the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act

1. How does the Bush presidency handle global warming and climate change?
Bush started a plan that would prevent the release of 500 million metric tons of greenhouse gas. To achieve this goal by providing tax credits to businesses that use renewable energy sources.

1. How does the world react to leaded gasoline?

It took long to react but once the evidence was there and the first country banned it.

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1.  How did the Gulf War create pollution?

Fallout for dispersing smoke plumes created a thick deposit known as tarcrete.

1. What does China construct that causes much controversy?

The Belt and Road initiative is a massive China-led infrastructure project that aims to stretch around the globe.

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1.  What major disasters occurred during this time?

A massive earthquake struck southern Italy (1980),  Iran was hit by a devastating earthquake (1990).

1. What two major issues involving the Earth’s atmosphere arise?

The main causes involving earths atmosphere arise is burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests and farming livestock.

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1. What government agency is founded?

The EPA

1. How was air pollution reduced?

The NAPCA (National Air Pollution Control Administration) and FWQA (Department of Interior’s Water Quality Administration) were established

1. How was water pollution reduced?

The Understanding the Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970 set new standards and regulations that prevented oil to enter the water supply

1. What two new sources of pollution begin causing concern?

being polluted by indiscriminate dumping of municipal and industrial wastes and some very toxic chemicals.

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1.  What was the “burning river?”

Multiple rivers burst into flames from oil and chemical pollution

1. What is the name of Rachel Carson’s book that started modern environmentalism?

The book is called The Sense of Wonder encourages parents to help their children experience the lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world.

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1. What led people to believe there was an air pollution crisis?

20 people were asphyxiated and more than 7,000 became seriously ill as the result of severe air pollution over Donora, Pennsylvania in 1955 and there was a decline in health.

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1.  What was the purpose of the National Coast Anti-Pollution League?

It was formed to stop oil dumping

1. What type of gasoline was used for the first autos?

Coal gas was first used

1. What was the chemurgy movement fighting for?

Full employment, national economic independence, and preservation of America’s destiny

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1.  What types of reforms were occurring?

Reform of working conditions, slum housing, food adulteration, sanitation, drinking water, pollution, hunting laws and mining practices

1. What did Theodore Roosevelt fight for?

He fought for smarter use of natural resources and taking the future into account while completing present needs

1. What new organizations were formed?

The women’s movement, U.S Children’s Bureau, and the U.S Department of labor

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1.  What causes did people begin to take up to improve the world?

Rationalism

Religious wars

1. What did Thomas Malthus predict?

if humans did not check their fast-growing numbers, mass starvation would result

1. Give examples of new pollution affecting the world.

Household combustion devices

motor vehicles

industrial facilities

forest fires

1.  Why did sanitation become so important?

Poor sanitation can cause diseases

1. How was the air pollution at this time?

The air pollution at that time was really bad. People's lungs were blackened.

1. How was the water pollution at this time?

The water pollution at that time was not purified. A lot of people got sick from the nasty drinking water.

1. What happened when the “Mother of the Forest” was cut down?

led to the conservation movement and the legal protection of these trees.

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How much water pollution was there?

- Water pollution tends to be less of a problem for dispersed populations than it would later become.
How much wood was being harvested?  What effects was this having?

changing the amount of downed woody material

In what ways was disease affecting the world?

killed large percentages of the world's populations at various times in the past.

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1.  How much air pollution was there?  Where did it come from?

An intolerable amount of air pollution came from wood smoke which was led by Henry II’s wife

1. How much water pollution was there?  Where did it come from?

Water pollution wasn’t very evident but since there were no sewer systems, it would mainly just result in trash being littered

1. How did humans get most of the energy they needed to survive?

Humans would get most of the energy from the sun

1. Was conservation being practiced anywhere in the world?  How?

China, India and Peru were the only countries that practiced conservation , they used soil conservation

1. Why was lead poisoning a problem?

It would lead to diseases and damage to the human system