The family tree of ecology

Tsunami in Japan Oil Spill Rio +20 Oil spill from a BP an earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan, provoking a major nudear accident in the Fukushima plant. platform in the Gng Mexico The Rio +20 Sum mit will toke place on June 20-22 in Brazil RIO+20 United Natio Conference 2012 Sustainable evelopme 2011 2010 An Inconvenient Truth Into the Wild The Day After Tomorrow Wall-E Home Copenhagen Climate Change Conference World Summit on Sustainable Development Darwin's Nightmare Katrina The Happening is a documentary ilm direc- ted by Davis Guggenheim about fomer United States Vice President Al Gore's cam- paign to educate citizers about global warming. is a film by Sean Penn, adap- ted from o Krakoyer. It tel ls the true story of an Am erican student, Chris- topher McCandless, who left everything to experience life < into the wild ». tells the life of a robot who has been left alone on a de- vastated and overp olluted Earth, while all humans have fled to hightech spaceships French photogrop her and Film-maker Yonn ArthusBer- trand releases his do cumen- tory on the pressure that man imposes on Earth on World Erwironment Day. 1996 book by Jon ane of the biggest hurricanes in the story of the United States, hits Laui siana. It is a striking example of the devas tating influence of dimate change on natural events a documentary by Hubert Sauuper that reports the envi- ronmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. by Roland Emmerich is a seiençeliction blockbuster that describes a new ice age suddenly hitting Earth, and that is the direct elfect of cli mate change. a M Night Shyam alan movie where nature turns agginst humans and punishes them for dam aging her. The Copenhagen Clim ate Change Conference is corsi- dered a fallure. oloce in Johannesburg SUSTAINABLE MNIGHT SHYAMALAN DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE INTO THE WILD WALL E JUNE 27 НОМЕ TE DAY AFTE COP15 COPENHAGE 2009 142 A 2004 HANNESBURG 2004 2000 2007 2008 2008 2006 2005 2009 aninconvenienttruth HAPPÉNING Le Contrat naturel by French philosopher Michel Serres calls for ae natural contract > that echoes to the e social contract > of Rousseau, which means that men must commit to protecting the nature that has been given to them. Earth Summit of Rio UNFCCC Ratifi cation of the Kyoto Pro- tocol of the United Nations Fram ew ork Convention on Climate Change (UNF CCC FCCC), that alms at ochleving sto bilisation of green- house gas concentrations in the atmosphere» The Earth Summit of Rio olfi- cially recognizes the concept of e'biosphere . Summit19 SERRES LE CONTRAT NATUREL UN FCCC 1997 1992 1990 Champs Our Common Future Minimata disease Bhopal catastrophe Exxon Valdez or Brundtland Report, written by the World Commission Environmert and Develop- ment officially delines sustai nable development as the « development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the obihity of future generations to meet their own needs ». Tchernobyl after an accident, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez spills 40 000 tons of crude oil near the coasts of Alaska. It is sill today one of the mou devav tating hu man-cau sed environ mental disasters the nudear acci dent at the Tchernobyl nudear plant is still the gravest reported nu- dear accident ever. The Bhopal cat astrophe : in the Indian town of Bhopal, explosion of a Union Car bide pestiddes plant kills 3 500 in one night, and 20 000 The Japanese town of Mina- mata is victim of a widerange mercure pollution caused by the local pevokina Fac- tory Chisso, rological diseaset ga neu- and is in the following w among the populotipreads weeks, accor- now known as the Minimata disease. Scandal bursts in 1949. ding to victims associations. OUR COMMON FUTURE THE WORLD COMMISSIO 1987 ON ENVIRONMENT April 1986 1y half of the 20th 1989 1984 AND DEVELOPMEN Gaia: a New Look at Life on Earth The imperative of Responsability by British scientist, environmen- talist and futuro logist James Lo- velo ck, disrupted our vision of ecology by stating that the Erth is a sel-regulating entity that by German philosopher Hans Jóngs introduces the idea that the future of mankind dep ends on the future of the planet, and recommends to « oct so that the offects of your adion ore compotible with he permo nence of genuine human life >. Nuclear accident Oil crisis Man and Biosphere The Limits to Growth nuclear accident at the Three Miles Island plant. the Oil crisis sends out an alarm signal on the exhaus- tion of fossil fuels. The UNESCO launches a re- search program on < Man and Biosphere». commissioned by the Club of Rome, predids that growth will end up exhausting natu- ral ressources, and calls for a « zero growth > rule. « mointains itsef in harmony with life >. James Lovelock GAIA The Imperative Responsibility THE LIMITS TO GRÓWTH A New Look at Life on Earth MaB In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age CRISIS Hans Jonas With a new Preface by the Author 1979 1973 1971 1971 1979 1979 Rachel Carson Arne Naess Donald Worster American marine biologiat, da nounced the allects ol pesti- cides on biodiversity in Silent Spring (1962). Her book rose public owaran ass on anviron mental concern. is a Norwegian philosopher who forged the ideo of e deep Bcology , asserting that thn causas of anv ironmantal de gradation had to be ad dressed, rathar than just thn sy mptoms. Amarican historian, dates our collective entran ce in the e ecologicol oge s at the 16th July 1945, whan the first atomic bomb was tasted in the Maxico. desert of New 1907 1964 1912 2009 born in 1941 Walden; or, Life in the Woods Arthur George Tansley Ernst Haeckel German philosopher and bio- logist. He defin ed acology for the vary first tima in 1866, as e the study of the relationship of organitme with th eir envi го лтелtз. by American poet Henry Dovid Thoreau is the loun- ding book of the Nature Wri- ting movement. English botanist, he was a pion- near in the soiance of acolo gy and notably oinad the tarm e ecosystem a in 1935. He was also the lounding director of Henry David Thoreaa WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS 1834 1910 1871 1955 1854 Deforestation Alexander von Humboldt The multiplication of colonies laads to deforestation and the first natural accidents are re ported. German naturalist, geogro phar and explorer. Ha porti- cipated in sainntifio mxploro tiona and was the firat to relata flora to the dlimate and the immadiate anvironment. 18th century 1769 1859 Théophraste A disciple of Aristotle, the found er of botany and the first to write about the relo- tions between animals and their environm ent. century B. C. THE FAMILY TREE OF ECOLOGY Etymology : oikos (house) and logos (study of) Over the past century, ecology has become a main concern for mankind, and thus for governments, international organizations and companies. But where does the concept come from ? Who forged it, what events led it to acquire such importance, and how does ecology now belong to our collective unconscious ? SUMMIT ON SA Rio Earth EVELOPMEN NATURAL & ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS INTERNATIONAL SUMMITS & TREATIES DOCUMENTARY WORKS PEOPLE