While the headline hardly comes as a shock today, this was the dawn of a growing environmental consciousness about the toll of plastics.

Since the 1950s, the artist's work has been committed to spiritual and environmental consciousness.

During the twentieth century, guano-producing birds became an important target of conservation programs and influenced the development of environmental consciousness.

It sought to spread environmental consciousness first on a small scale, but since 1973 it took action to protect the environment and promote environmental consciousness.

With rising environmental consciousness the environment became the most important issue for the ministry.