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Page 1: Environmental Movement 1960 - 2000 ENVI1110 Fiona Tilley fiona@env.leeds.ac.uk

Environmental Movement 1960 - 2000

ENVI1110Fiona Tilley

[email protected]

Page 2: Environmental Movement 1960 - 2000 ENVI1110 Fiona Tilley fiona@env.leeds.ac.uk

Session Objectives

• Reasons why modern environmental movement has grown

• Where to find information• Identify some of the key events

that have shaped the environmental movement over the last 4 decades

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Why the resurgence in 1960’s?

1. Increase in scientific understanding• Research, publications

2. Increase in pressure group membership• Greenpeace, Amnesty, WWF

3. Increased signs of damage• Satellite images, flooding, oil spills, acid rain

4. Increased desire to find solutions• Media attention and public interest on rise

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Charting the Influential …

• Events and Gatherings• Legislation and Policy• Publications• Disasters• Beginnings of Organisations

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Timelineshttp://www.iisd.org/pdf/2002/sd_timeline2002.pdf

http://www.time.com/time/2002/greencentury/

http://sdgateway.net/introsd/timeline.html

http://pages.prodigy.net/sherkovacs/Timelin2.html

http://www.sovereignty.net/p/gov/timeline.html

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So What?

If we can understand the historical events and ideas that have shaped where we are today it may help us to understand where we are going tomorrow and how future events may influence the environmental movement.

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Task

• In groups of 3-4• For each of the four decades

(1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s) I want you to think of the defining moments that have shaped the environmental movement

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1960’s

• Kenneth Boulding’s ‘Spaceship Earth’

• Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 1962

• Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ 1968

• Friends of the Earth 1969

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1970’s

• First Earth Day 1970• Greenpeace 1971• Polluter Pays Principle ‘OECD’ 1971• UN Conference on Human

Development, 1972• Worldwatch Institute 1975

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1970’s Limit’s to Growth Debate

Club of Rome Report in 1972, came to two main conclusions:

 (i) If the present trends in growth of population,

industrialisation, pollution, food production and resource depletion continued unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet would be reached within the next 100 years.

 (ii) It is possible to alter these growth trends and to

establish a condition of ecological and economic stability that is sustainable for the future. (Meadows et al, 1989).

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Ecological Disasters

• 1978 Amoco Cadiz oil spill off the coast of Brittany

• 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear accident occurs in Pennsylvania

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1980’s ‘The Science’

• Climate Change – 1985 ‘ global warming predicted’– 1988 IPCC established

• Ozone Depletion– 1985 Ozone Hole Discovered– 1987 Montreal Protocol adopted

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The largest ever ozone hole, approx. 3 times the size of USA, NASA image taken Sept 6th 2000

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Sustainable Development• 1980 World Conservation Strategy

– “Humanity’s relationship with the biosphere (the thin covering of the planet that contains and sustains life) will continue to deteriorate until a new international order is achieved, a new environmental ethic is adopted, human populations stabilised, and sustainable modes of development become the rule rather than the exception .... For development to be sustainable it must take account of social and ecological factors, as well as economic ones; of the living and non-living resource base; and of the long term as well as short term advantages and disadvantages of alternative actions.” (IUCN, 1980, Section1)

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Sustainable Development

• 1987 World Commission on Environment and Development– Equates sustainable development

with progress that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

– p.43 Our Common Future

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1980’s ‘The Disasters’

• 1984 - Bhopal, India – Union Carbide toxic chemical leak 10,000 dead 300,000 injured

• 1984 - Ethiopian drought led to a famine with 250,000 – 1 million dead

• 1986 - Chernobyl, toxic radioactive explosion

• 1989 - Exxon Valdez dumps 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska

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Rise of Green Power in 80’s

• Environmental Groups – UK membership went from 2 to 5 million

between 1980-88

• Green Party – gained 15% of vote at European elections in

1989

• John Elkington and Julia Hailes – ‘Green Consumer Guide’

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Earth Summit 1992

5 agreements were introduced1. The Framework Convention on

Climate Change2. The Convention on Biodiversity3. Agenda 214. The Rio Declaration5. The Forest Principles

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1990’s ‘Business Changes’• 1992

– Business Council for Sustainable Development representation at Earth Summit

• 1995– Shell linked with death of Ken Saro-Wiwa– World Trade Organisation

• 1996 ISO14001 EMS• 1997 Marine Stewardship Council founded• 1998 Monsanto GMO crisis • 1999 Global Sustainability Index

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Summary

• 1960’s birth of new consciousness, movement, groups

• 1970’s tense battle ground between economists and environmental movement

• 1980’s Introduction of sustainable development

• 1990’s Realising SD • 2000’s ?

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Task

• Look up other timelines

• Find out more about each of the key events

• Know why they are relevant and how they have shaped or influenced the environmental movement