Index
A
abortion 15
acid rain 34, 83, 88–89, 91, 98
aerosol 26, 28, 30, 35, 86, 91, 96–98, 145
agriculture 3, 45, 53, 55, 70–72, 82, 90, 94–95, 105, 114, 195–200, 218, 225–227, 242
Aichi Biodiversity Targets 182
air pollution 17–18, 25–26, 28, 33–34, 60, 63, 73–74, 79, 82, 86, 88–91
Anders, Bill 231
Antarctica 3, 9–10, 24, 29, 35, 87, 92, 102–105, 142–144, 148, 232
Anthropocene, the 5, 70, 174–175, 195, 216
Apollo 8 231
Apollo 17 231
Arakawa, Akio 26
Arctic, the 3, 25, 46, 53, 102–108, 186, 236
Arrhenius, Svante 23–26, 30, 172
B
Baumol, William 81
Beck, Ulrich 170
BeiDou 241
Bhopal disaster 187
Bigelow, Henry Bryant 204
Bilott, Rob 191
biodiversity 5, 18, 36, 51–56, 71–73, 78, 151, 181–182, 197–199, 249
bio-economy 218
Birnbaum, Linda 189
Blue Marble, The 231, 234, 237
Blum, Arlene 190
Brélaz, Daniel 34
Brundtland, Gro Harlem 35, 152
Brundtland Report 35, 39, 134, 152–153
Buen Vivir 137
bushfire 161, 163, 166. See also wildfire
2019–2020 Australian bushfire season 167
Black Saturday bushfires 162
Bush Jr., George W. 3, 171, 232
Bush Sr., George H. W. 36
C
Callendar, Guy 25
Cancun Adaptation Framework 155
carbon dioxide emission 3, 5, 19, 23–25, 28, 43–48, 61, 91, 93, 98–99, 173, 208, 214, 218
carbon dioxide removal (CDR) 16, 26, 46, 49, 70, 73, 94–95, 211
carbon sequestration. See carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
Castro, Fidel 36
Chernobyl disaster 60
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 16, 35–36, 38–39, 86–89, 91, 97, 171–172, 231
Clarke, Arthur C. 242
Clean Air Act (UK) 86
Clean Air Act (US) 26, 34, 54, 83, 89, 186, 189, 232
Clean Water Act 34, 54, 186, 189, 222
climate change denial 232, 248
climate model 5, 26–28, 109, 171, 214
Clinton, Bill 171
Coase, Ronald 77
coastal zone color scanner (CZCS) 206
Coastal Zone Management Act 205
Colburn, Theo 189
contraception 15
Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) 135, 153
Cook, James 204
Cour-Palais, Burton 242
CRISPR 19
Crutzen, Paul 95
cryosphere 27, 101, 103, 107, 151
glacier 3, 5, 101–105, 107, 143
ice sheet 29–30, 101–105, 141–144
permafrost 25, 46, 69, 101, 103–104, 106–107, 109
sea ice 3, 25, 30, 53, 101–104, 106, 108, 206, 208, 216
Cyclone Idai 64
Cyclone Kenneth 64
D
Dales, John Harkness 80
Dark Waters 191
Darwin, Charles 204
Deepwater Horizon oil spill 60
deforestation 25, 45, 49, 69–73, 78, 82, 195, 197
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) 17–18, 53, 170, 186
‘die-in’ 1
drought 25, 52, 65, 68–69, 72, 74, 154, 161–162, 164–166
Dumanoski, Dianne 189
Dunnivant, Frank 223
Environmental Success Stories 223
Dust Bowl, the 14
E
Earth Day 1–2, 4, 25, 29, 33–34, 45, 53–54, 60, 67, 77, 80, 85–87, 89, 91, 93, 99, 105, 133–134, 139, 141, 143–145, 151–152, 169, 179, 183, 185–186, 197, 203–204, 207, 213, 215, 217, 222–224, 231, 242
ecosystem services 15, 223, 225–226
The Population Bomb 203
Emissions Gap Report 156
Endangered Species List 53
Enhanced Transparency Framework 156
Enlightenment, Age of 169
Environmental Defense Fund 170
environmental economics 77–78, 80–83
environmental injustice 17
environmentalism 13–14, 17, 39, 152, 169
brown environmentalism 17
green environmentalism 17
environmental justice 6, 16–17, 250
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). See US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
typhoid 222
eutrophication 33–34, 199, 218, 222
exclusive economic zone 183
extinction 44–46, 48, 52–54, 71, 78, 98, 151, 196, 207
extreme weather 5, 155, 161, 162, 163, 164, 166, 173, 199, 233. See also cyclone; See also heat wave
ExxonMobil 248
Exxon Valdez oil spill 60
F
fertilizer 185, 197–199, 218–219, 226–227
fire. See bushfire; See wildfire
First Nations. See Indigenous peoples
fishery 5, 10, 16, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184. See also overfishing
Fleming, R. H. 204
flooding 44, 64–65, 143, 154, 164–165
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) 178–179
forest 3, 5, 15–16, 55–56, 67–73, 88, 90, 137–138, 161, 178, 196–197, 199
forest management 72
forest mortality 69
Forest Principles 153
fossil fuel 5, 28–30, 39–40, 46–48, 61, 70, 81, 90–92, 142, 144, 156–157, 162, 174, 177–178, 196, 205, 214–215, 248–249
Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act 189
fresh water 5, 101, 199, 221, 223–227
Fridays for Future 174
Friends of the Earth 33
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 60
G
G-7 Summit 37
Gandhi, Indira 35
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 37–38
genetically modified (GM) crop 200
geoengineering 5, 19, 49, 91, 93, 95–99
glacier. See cryosphere: glacier
Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services 151
global corporate rule 34, 38, 40
Global South. See North–South divide
global warming 16, 23–25, 27–29, 39, 91, 93–95, 107, 145, 151, 156, 162–167
An Inconvenient Truth 234
Graedel, Tom 192
Grandjean, Philippe 187
Great Seattle Fire, the 147
Great Stink, the 48
greenhouse gas 3, 24–30, 39, 62–65, 70–74, 85, 91, 93, 96, 98–99, 105–107, 144, 151, 154–156, 172–174, 199, 214, 218
Greenland 24, 29, 102–106, 142–143, 208
green politics 39
Green Revolution, the 185, 197–199
Green Science Policy Institute 190
greenwashing 55
Grotius, Hugo 204
Gutenberg, Beno 142
H
Haber-Bosch process 197
Hansen, James 231
‘The tragedy of the commons’ 78, 181
‘Harvard Six Cities’ study 89
heat wave 19, 68, 161–163, 167
high Earth orbit (HEO) 241–242
HMS Challenger 204
Holocene, the 104
Hurricane Harvey 233
Hurricane Katrina 145, 147, 234
Hurricane Maria 64
Hurricane Rita 234
Hurricane Sandy 144
I
ice sheet. See cryosphere: ice sheet
Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) 5, 133–134, 136–137
Indigenous peoples 4–6, 133–138, 235–236, 248–250
Indigenous Peoples Earth Charter. See Kari-Oca Declaration
individual transferable quota (ITQ) 182
Industrial Revolution, the 53, 177, 196
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 3, 151, 153, 173, 207, 232
Second Assessment Report 3
International Decade of Ocean Exploration 206
International Geophysical Year 87, 205, 241
International Space Station (ISS) 241
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 134
irrigation 56, 198–200, 221, 226
J
Johnson, M. W. 204
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study 206
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 78
K
Kari-Oca 2 Declaration 136
Kari-Oca Declaration 135
Kasahara, Akira 26
Keeling, Charles David 24, 205
Kessler, Donald 242
Kimberley Declaration 135
Klein, Naomi
This Changes Everything 39
Kyoto Protocol 3, 29, 38, 113, 154, 232
L
LaDuke, Winona 133
Lamphear, Bruce 187
Landrigan, Philip 187
land use 45–46, 60, 195–196, 198, 218
Langley, Samuel 24
Law of the Rights of Mother Earth 138
legislation 18, 26, 34, 53, 60, 145, 189, 223, 225, 249
Lima Declaration 137
Limits to Growth, The 213, 219
Little Ice Age, the 104
Lovelock, James 86
low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) 223–226
M
MacNeill, Jim 39
Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 205
malnutrition 199
Manabe, Syukuro 26
Mann, Michael 233
mare clausum 204
mare liberum 204
Marine Mammal Protection Act 205
marine protected area (MPA) 182–183
Maya civilization 14
medium Earth orbit (MEO) 241
Mercer, John 142
mercury (Hg) 185–188, 190, 192
methane 43–44, 91, 106–107, 199
micro-plastics 17, 209, 216, 225
Minamata Convention on Mercury 190
Minamata disease 188
Mintz, Yale 26
Montgomery, David 81
Montreal Protocol 36, 38, 87, 97, 171–172, 231
Mount Pinatubo eruption 96
Myers, J. P. 189
N
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 204
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) 170, 189
nationally determined contribution (NDC) 156
National Marine Sanctuaries Act 205
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 205
National Toxicology Program 170
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) 170
Neolithic 196
Nimbus 7 206
Noordung, Hermann 242
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 38
nuclear war 15
O
Oates, Wallace 81
ocean 5, 16, 19, 25, 27, 29, 44, 46, 78, 94, 102, 138, 151, 174, 181, 205–207, 216, 218, 241
ocean acidification 3, 16, 46, 49, 98, 183, 208
Odyssey 59
Our Common Future. See Brundtland Report
Our Stolen Future 189
overfishing 19, 180, 181. See also fishery
ozone depletion 16, 35–36, 87–88, 171–172, 232
P
Palaeolithic 196
Paris Agreement, The 28–29, 63, 144, 155–156, 173
peak oil 214
permafrost. See cryosphere: permafrost
persistent organic pollutant (POP) 190
pesticide 19, 52, 53, 170, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 199, 225, 226. See also dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)
Pigou, Arthur 77
plastics 3, 5, 17, 209, 215, 217, 219, 226, 243. See also micro-plastics
Plato 196
Critias 196
poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) 188–189, 191–192
Popular Movement for the Environment (PME) 34
population growth 4, 6, 14–15, 111, 209, 213, 219, 223–224
poverty 17, 35–37, 40, 62, 71, 199–200
precision agriculture 200
R
recycling 113, 121, 209, 216–218, 226
Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) 190
renewable energy 28, 60–64, 80, 213–214, 218, 225
Revelle, Roger 205
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 153–154
Rio Earth Summit 3, 36–37, 135–136, 232
Ross, James Clark 204
Rowland, F. Sherwood 171
S
Safe Drinking Water Act 189
The Pale Blue Dot 174
San Bruno pipeline explosion 60
sea ice. See cryosphere: sea ice
sea level rise 5, 25, 27, 64, 105, 107, 141–146, 173, 206
Second World War, the 178–179, 203, 215
Sedlak, David 222
Water 4.0 222
Sierra Club, the 33
Smagorinsky, Joseph 26
Snowball Earth hypothesis 103
social media 234
soil 14, 19, 71, 74, 94, 103, 106, 186, 195–196, 198–200, 216
space junk 5, 17, 239, 241–245
space situational awareness 244
space traffic management 244
Sputnik 2 240
Stewart, Christine 38
Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 34–36, 152
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 190
Stockholm Declaration 152
sulfur dioxide 17, 80–81, 83, 85, 89, 91, 96
sustainability 14, 18, 55, 133–135, 138, 175, 192
Sustainable Development Goals. See UN Sustainable Development Goals
Suzuki, David 37
Sverdrup, H. U. 204
T
Task Force on Displacement 156
Telstar 1 241
Three Mile Island accident 60
Thunberg, Greta 8, 33, 174, 233, 237
total allowable catch (TAC) 181. See also individual transferable quota (ITQ)
toxic chemical 5, 18, 38, 53, 185, 186, 187, 188, 190, 203. See also lead (Pb); See also mercury (Hg); See also poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Toxic Substances Control Act 171, 189
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin 242
U
UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 209
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) 136
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 37–38, 153–156, 173, 232
Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth 137
UN Millennium Development Goals 136, 223
UN Sustainable Development Goals 40, 182, 200, 223–224, 227
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 136
uranium 60
urbanization 54, 73, 195, 223–224
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 34, 80, 170–171, 186, 189, 191, 222
V
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland 204
Vietnam War, the 15, 33, 203, 205, 231
W
Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage 155
Washington, Warren 26
waste management 216, 217, 222. See also incineration; See also landfill; See also recycling
water pollution 18, 33–34, 60, 221, 223, 225
Watt, James 45
Wildcat, Daniel 133
wildfire 23, 64–65, 68, 70–72, 89, 161–162, 235
Winogrand, Garry 114
World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) 35, 134, 152
World Conference of Indigenous Peoples on Territory, Environment and Development 135
World Conference of Indigenous Women 138
world hunger 16
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 104, 153, 173
World People’s Conference on Climate Change 137
World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 135
World Trade Organization (WTO) 37–39
Y
Yellowstone National Park 54