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Critically examine the role of environmental legislation in the attempt to prevent problem shifting between environmental media.
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Critically examine the role of environmental legislation in the attempt to prevent problem shifting between environmental media. The 1970's saw a growing concern for environmental affairs on a global scale reflected in extensive media coverage and public support. The support was gathered with the 1960's radical protests that questioned much of society's characteristics and demonstrations such as the first national Earth Day of April 1970, USA (McCormick 1989). The rise of the global environmental movement, which often is said to have begun in 1962 with the publication of Rachael Carson's infamous "Silent Spring", was accompanied with a series of environmental disasters (McCormick 1989). These included the well publicised oil spills of the Torrey Canyon 1967 and Santa Barbara blow out 1969, the Minamata Disease caused by Mercury pollution into water, which became apparent in the late 1960's, and the high occurrences of photochemical smog in large cities around the world. The...
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