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King Edward I of England issued a royal proclamation banning the burning and sale of sea-coal in 1272. This decree marked one of the earliest recorded instances of government intervention to protect air quality in London.
Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962 to document the devastating effects of DDT on bird populations and the broader ecosystem. The book sold over two million copies and led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and the ban on agricultural DDT use in 1972.
The first Earth Day was celebrated on the 22nd of April 1970 and mobilized millions of people across the United States. Political parties campaigning on environmental platforms emerged in Tasmania and New Zealand, while the first national green party in Europe, PEOPLE, was founded in Britain in February 1973.
The number of environmental activists assassinated rose to 185 in 2015, representing more than two deaths every week. Brazil, Colombia, the Philippines, and Mexico emerged as the deadliest countries for land and environmental defenders during the early 1990s.
The PIBBY principle stands for Place-in-Minorities'-Backyard and describes how the NIMBY movement transferred locally unwanted land uses to poor communities with large minority populations. This form of environmental elitism manifested in three ways including compositional, ideological, and impact forms that imposed costs on nonparticipants.
Greta Thunberg sparked the global climate strike movement in 2018 with her solitary protest outside the Swedish Riksdag. This led to the largest climate strikes in world history in September 2019 and inspired millions of young people to demand action on climate change.