History of the Environmental Movement
This day in April is used to celebrate our planet and its protection
Earth Day
This 23 year old Swedish environmentalist is well known for directly pressuring world leaders to act on climate change
Greta Thunberg
This type of justice focuses on the fairness of the processes used to make decisions
Procedural Justice
This is the primary driver of climate change
Burning Fossil Fuels
An environmental justice disaster that saw a majority-Black Michigan city’s water poisoned after switching its supply from a local lake to a cheaper river
The Flint Water Crisis
This governmental organization was created in 1970 due to public pressure from the environmental movement.
This natural historian and television broadcaster was most famous for narrating nature documentaries, but was also an advocate for biodiversity and the reduction of human consumption
Sir David Attenborough
This type of justice focuses on the fairness of the outcomes of decisions, just allocation of resources across society
Distributive Justice
This activity is responsible for the greatest share of Hamilton College’s carbon emissions
Heating Buildings
This proverbial alley of petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River led to disproportionately poor health outcomes in nearby Black communities
An international treaty adopted in 2015 by almost all of the world’s nations requiring plans to cut emissions and keep warming below 2℃.
The Paris Agreement
This Potawatomi advocate for environmental and indigenous rights became famous after she published Braiding Sweetgrass about different ways of knowing and how they interact with the environment
Robin Wall Kimmerer
This is a term for how researchers consider multiple social identities when thinking about environmental justice issues
Intersectionality
Thanks to increased atmospheric temperatures melting ice and decreasing the density of water, sea levels have risen by this much since the pre-industrial period. (Accepting within 1 inch)
8-9 inches
These protests opposed the dumping of PCP laden soil in a rural, black community are often credited with sparking the environmental justice movement
The Warren County Landfill Protests
This 1962 book by Rachel Carson is largely responsible for raising public awareness about pesticides.
Silent Spring
This Brazilian environmentalist worked to protect the Amazon Rainforest and local indigenous people’s ways of life. He was assassinated in 1988 by an assassin hired by local ranches who wanted to use Amazonian land for grazing.
Chico Mendez
This term refers to any policy or practice that differentially disadvantages people of color in distribution of, and exposure to, environmental harms
Environmental Racism
These are the three greenhouse gases that are responsible for the greatest shares of global temperature increase
Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide
An area of the South Bronx with a disproportionate number of Hispanics and African Americans is named this after a respiratory condition caused by high pollution in the area caused by local industry and highways
Asthma Alley
Protesting the federal government’s failure to return land to Indigenous peoples, the group Indians of All Tribes occupied this island from 1969-1971
Alcatraz
This Kenyan woman founded the Green Belt movement and was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Wangari Maathi
This paradigm is used to identify instances of environmental injustice caused by the failure of societal institutions to recognize and respect differences
The Recognition Paradigm
This fuel makes up the third largest share of energy production in the United States
Coal
This Indian city was poisoned by methyl isocyanate gas when an American-owned factory leaked, killing 2,000 and injuring 300,000
Bhopal