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1788

First Fleet arrives in Australia

1850

Plowing up the World’s Grasslands

1859

The world's first mechanically drilled oil well

1899

The Invention of Mass Destruction Mining

1945

Atomic warfare

1950

The great Acceleration

1952

The Great London Smog

1958

David Keeling starts CO2 observations atop Mauna Loa

1970

Earth Day

1972

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

1974

Stratospheric ozone depletion

1986

Chernobyl nuclear disaster

1988

Human induced climate change

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