This presentation is about the Indian and international Environmentalists who worked for the welfare of the environment

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Environmental
Studies
Name-:Dhruv Shailesh Rathod
Prn-1062222520
FY BBA-DIV-B
Roll No -:174

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GAYLORD NELSON
 INTRODUCTION-:
 Gaylord Nelson was born in Clear Lake, Wisconsin in 1916. The son of a country
doctor, Nelson sometimes made house calls with his father. Nelson earned a BA
from San Jose State College and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin.
 CONTRIBUTION-:
 Gaylord Nelson is perhaps best known as the father of Earth Day. Gaylord took
various efforts For the passage of various environmental laws, including the
Environmental Protection Act. He conceived the idea of Earth Day, which
American Heritage Magazine called “one of the most remarkable happenings in
the history of democracy.”
 Nelson’s most far-reaching accomplishments occurred on a larger stage. Elected
to the U.S. Senate in November 1962, he became its leading environmentalist.
He championed landmark laws including the Wilderness Act, the National Trails
Act, the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and the National Environmental
Education Act. He also introduced the first federal legislation to mandate fuel-
efficiency standards in automobiles, control strip mining, and ban the use of
phosphates in detergents as well as use of the pesticide DDT and the defoliant
2,4,5-T.

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 Nelson viewed the stabilization of the nation’s population as an
important aspect of environmentalism. In his words:
 The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems
become ... We have to address the population issue. The United
Nations, with the U.S. Supporting it, took the position in Cairo in
1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own
population. It can be done. But in this country, it’s phony to say
“I’m for the environment but not for limiting immigration.

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SUNDERLAL BAHAGUNA
 INTRODUCTION-:
 Sunderlal Bahuguna Ji was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko
movement leader. The idea of the Chipko movement was suggested by his
wife and him.He was one of the early environmentalists of India
 CONTRIBUTION-:
 He fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas, first as a member of
the Chipko movement in the 1970s, and later spearheaded the anti-Tehri Dam
movement from the 1980s to early 2004.

5.  The Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in Uttarakhand (then a part
of Uttar Pradesh) from spontaneous action by villagers to save trees from
being cut down by forest contractors
 One of Sunderlal Bahuguna’s notable contributions to the Chipko movement,
and to environmentalism in general, was his creation of the Chipko’s slogan
“Ecology is permanent economy”.Sunderlal Bahuguna helped bring the
movement to prominence through a 5,000-kilometer trans-Himalaya march
undertaken from 1981 to 1983, traveling from village to village, gathering
support for the movement.
 He is regarded as the person who taught India to hug trees
 Bahuguna played a major role in the anti-Tehri Dam protests for decades. He
used Satyagraha methods and repeatedly went on hunger strikes at the
banks of Bhagirathi as a mark of his protest.
 The image in the next slide shows the protest message against Tehri Dam
which was steered by sundarlal bahaguna for years.It says,”We dont want
the damn.The dam is the mountains destruction.”