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People to Know for the APES Exam
APES People
6
Environmental Studies
11th Grade
05/01/2011

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Rachel Carson
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published Silent Spring in 1962; documented environmental damage done by DDT and other pesticides which heightened public awareness at start of modern environmental movement
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John Muir
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founded Sierra Club in 1892; fought unsuccessfully to prevent the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park
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Gifford Pinchot
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first chief of US Forest Service; advocated managing resources for multiple use using principles of sustainable yield
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Garrett Hardin
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published "The Tragedy of the Commons" in journal Science in 1968; argued rational people will exploit shared resources (commons)
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Aldo Leopold
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wrote A Sand County Almanac published a year after his death in 1948; promoted a "Land Ethic" in which humans are ethically responsible for serving as the protectors of nature
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Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina
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1974--> determine that CFCs destroy stratospheric (good) ozone
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