People to Know

Question 1

Rachel Carson

Answer 1

published Silent Spring in 1962; documented the environmental damage done by DDT and other pesticides. Which heightened public awareness at the start of the modern environmental movement

Question 2

John Muir

Answer 2

founded Sierra Club in 1892; fought unsuccessfully to prevent the dammig of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite Natl Park

Question 3

Gifford Pinchot

Answer 3

first cheif of the US Forest service; advocated managing recources for multiple use using principles of sustainable yield

Question 4

Garrett Hardin

Answer 4

publeshed “The Tragety of The Commons” in the journal Science in 1968; argued that rational people will exploit shaird resources (commons)

Question 5

Aldo Leopold

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina

Answer 6

in 1974, determine that CFC’s destroy stratospheric (good) ozone.