Need to do some quick research for terminology and naming for a future project (you can probably guess the general topic by my questions).

Part 1: Without doing a web search, do you know what Kessler Syndrome is?

Part 2: Without doing a web search, do you know what the Exxon Valdez is?

Part 3: Without doing a web search, do you know what the Montreal Protocol is?

@sundogplanets No, but i knew about it, just not under that term.

5 minutes into this set of polls and the answers are already super interesting. Cool. Thanks for participating!

Here's a different way of summarizing these (very unscientific, very biased, but still super interesting) poll results. Name recognition of selected environment-related terms:

Recognize "Kessler Syndrome"?
40% (over 30)
34% (under 30)

Recognize "Exxon Valdez"?
86% (over 30)
25% (under 30)

Recognize "Montreal Protocol"?
33% (over 30)
29% (under 30)

Exxon Valdez is the "winner" for name recognition (at least among the older demographic). Interesting!!

@sundogplanets Perhaps because Exxon Valdez was a news item twice: The catastrophe itself and then the proceedings against the captain. In the news for months.

@guenterhack @sundogplanets

I still remember the Torrey Canyon… it was in 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrey_Canyon_oil_spill

@GustavinoBevilacqua @guenterhack @sundogplanets Amoco Cadiz for me -- because I'm European.

@ysegrim @guenterhack @sundogplanets

Not far from me we had the Haven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT_Haven

@GustavinoBevilacqua @guenterhack @sundogplanets (I just realized that "because I'm European" sounded a lot more chauvinistic than I intended -- apologies ... We all had our more "local" disasters, and if the name of "yours" doesn't tell me anything, that's because a different one with a different name had a bigger impact to "me" locally.