After yellow fever was firmly ensconced via an ecological reconfiguration connected to sugar (c. 1640–90) it underpinned a military and political status quo, keeping Spanish America Spanish. After 1780, and particularly in the Haitian revolution, yellow fever undermined that status quo by assisting independence movements in the American tropics.
Taylor seeks to describe the popular outdoor movement that he maintains has developed generically in both its ‘ideological evolution and its practical expression’ (16), from the earliest establishment of the Footpath Preservation Societies, through the Campaign for Access, and an Outdoor Movement on Wheels.
The ‘domination of nature’ is a concept now fraught with negative connotations; however, it was not always thus.
Scientists Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland argue that CFCs could damage the ozone layer.
This work introduces the term “ecofeminism.”
Following the establishment of the Xapuri Rural Workers’ Union, Brazilian activist Chico Mendes becomes a symbol for peaceful resistance to social injustice and environmental destruction.
Copernicus introduces the idea of a heliocentric universe in which the planets move around the sun.
The Nobel Peace Prize goes to former US Vice President Al Gore and the IPCC for their efforts to communicate the dangers of climate change.
The environmental protection NGO is founded in Vancouver, Canada.
The first “Earth Day” is celebrated in the US in 1970; by 1990 it is observed worldwide.
