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The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2461-7. Fox, Stephen R. (1981). John Muir and his legacy: the American conservation movement. Little Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-29110-1. Gottlieb, Robert (1993). Forcing the spring: the transformation of the American environmental movement. Island ...
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings.While environmentalism focuses more on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism.
Historians pose a strange paradox regarding Nixon. In 1970-1971 he unexpectedly emerged as a great environmentalist who deserves credit for several of the most important environmental laws in American history. By 1972, however, he suddenly moved far to the right, despising environmentalists as left-wing fanatics who would bankrupt the economy.
The Global Environmental Movement, London: John Wiley. Rosier, Paul C. Environmental Justice in North America (Routledge, 2024) online book review; Shabecoff, Philip. A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, (Island Press, 2003) ISBN 1-55963-437-5; Taylor, Dorceta. The Rise of the American Conservation Movement.
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...
Environmental issues in the United States include climate change, energy, species conservation, invasive species, deforestation, mining, nuclear accidents, pesticides, pollution, waste and over-population. Despite taking hundreds of measures, the rate of environmental issues is increasing rapidly instead of reducing.
Dominique Voynet John Muir. An environmentalist is a person who is concerned with and/or advocates for the protection of the environment. An environmentalist can be considered a supporter of the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to environmentalism: . Environmentalism – broad philosophy, ideology [1] [2] [3] and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements.