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Which of the following accidents was one of the first cases to bring environmental issues together with the questions of poverty and development?
 
  a. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown in the late 1900s in Ukraine
  b. The Bhopal chemical leak in India in the early 1980s
  c. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan
  d. The Aswan Dam collapse in Egypt in the mid-1950s

Question 2

In 1962, Silent Spring was published by Rachel Carson. What was the main subject of the book?
 
  a. The deadly fog that gripped London, England in the mid-1950s
  b. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Ukraine earlier that year
  c. The creation of the Yosemite National Park in California as a conservationist's paradise
  d. The effects of pesticide use on human and animal health



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

d



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