APES Timeline by Iris Lin https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i en-us 2020-08-14 17:46:43 UTC 2025-09-24 11:42:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Ancient Civilizations BC-1200 A.D. liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680766775  1. There was not a lot of air pollution as compared to today. Air pollution came from burning coal or  wood and odors from sewage and garbage. 
2. Rome had clean water from aqueducts but other sources were polluted from tanning and smelting or sewage. 
3. Burning coal and wood.
4. Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism disallowed the consumption of animals and promoted their preservation. These religions were practiced in India, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. 
5 .Lead was used to sweeten food and was used as a material to make utensils, causing people to get lead poisoning after long term consumption. 



]]> 2020-08-14 18:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680766775 Middle Ages and Renaissance liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680770136
  • Less water population bc of dispersed populations
  • Increased wood harvestation when Industrialization begins, replaced coal
  • Negative effects: heavy deforestation, stricter forest codes
  • Bubonic plague kills 33-75% of Eurasian populations
  • Suspected Jews’ “cleanliness” -> Genocidal Jewish pogroms
  • Enforced quarantine policies -> first public health programs


    • ]]>     2020-08-14 18:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680770136     Enlightenment liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680774868
  • They realized there was more to life than conquest and people started to challenge old beliefs and introduce new ideas. science, logic, and progress was also emerging around the world due to inventions such as gunpowder and the printing press
  • The human population would outgrow its resources and war famine disease would stop the growth.
  • Smoke, erosion caused by deforestation, burning coal for manufacturing iron
  • Air pollution worsened due to increase of wood consumption, esp in London
  • It sparked outrage and eventually led to reforms such as the Forest Preserve Act
    • ]]>     2020-08-14 18:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680774868     Progressive Era liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680775696
  • National Reservations, Environmental acts, women clubs for wildlife, wildlife and forest preservationism, push for public health (esp in industrial society)
  • National Wildlife Preservation
  • General Federation of Women’s Clubs
  • Sierra Club
  • The American SPCA and American Humane Association
  • National council for Industrial Safety 


    • ]]>     2020-08-14 18:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680775696     1920s and 1930s liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680776609
  • The purpose of the National Coast Anti-Pollution league is to stop oil dumping
  • The gasoline used in the first autos was leaded gasoline
  • The chemurgy movement fought for industrial use of renewable agricultural resources
    • ]]>     2020-08-14 18:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680776609     1940s and 1950s liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680777461
  • events such as the smog incident in Donora, Pennsylvania on Oct. 30-31 where 20 people died, 600 were hospitalized and thousands stricken and a “killer fog” in London killing 600 people led to people thinking there was an air pollution crisis

    • ]]>     2020-08-14 18:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680777461     1960s and 1970s liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680779362
  • The burning river refers to the Cuyahoga River in Ohio that was on fire. It was on fire on June 22, 1969 due to oil and chemical pollution
  • the name of Rachel Carson's book starting modern environmentalism is her 1962 book Silent Spring
    • ]]>     2020-08-14 18:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680779362     1970-1980 liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680780557
  • EPA, otherwise known as the Environmental Protection Agency 
  • Clean Air Act of 1970 which regulated air emissions from stationary and mobile sources
  • The Water Quality improvement act of 1970 which limited the amount of oil u could pour into the ocean
  • Water and air pollution
    • ]]>     2020-08-14 18:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680780557     1980-1990 liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680782190
  • Wildfires, heat waves, volcanos
  • The global temperature of the earth rose sharply. carbon dioxide and industrial gases were trapping heat in the atmosphere.
  • The regime shift was a shift in the global climate

    • ]]>     2020-08-14 18:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680782190     1990-2000 liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680782765
  • Oil and fires from the Gulf War caused CO2 which caused the pollution
  • Many buildings and factory that China constructed produces pollution.

    • ]]>     2020-08-14 18:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680782765     2000-Present liniris6979 https://padlet.com/liniris6979/gwumfkttl81vjv9i/wish/680783027
  • The  final act President Clinton signed was (Budget Includes Important Investments in Health Care).
  • Bush handled global warming by increasing conservation and energy efficiency and using clean energy.
  • They didn't like the lead  because the it was toxic for many people and caused Americans lead-related heart disease.




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