Santa Barbara oil spill (1969)
The 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill produced widely seen images of environmental devastation that helped galvanize the modern environmental movement, contributing to the first Earth Day and the founding of Greenpeace.
"I think of the shockwaves from the Santa Barbara oil spill in '69 – the raw images of environmental devastation galvanizing a movement, leading to the first Earth Day, the founding of Greenpeace."
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- Club of Rome · both placed under sec-009
- First Earth Day · both placed under sec-009
- Founding of Greenpeace · both placed under sec-009
- The Limits to Growth · both placed under sec-009
- Brundtland Report ("Our Common Future") · discussed together in section 009
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- Sustainability
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- Chapter 1, section 009 · Flickers of Awakening: Have We Learned the Lessons?
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