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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 ...
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. 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 activities". [1]
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 ...
American non-fiction environmental writers (271 P) Pages in category "American environmentalists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 755 total.
Since awareness of these issues emerged in the 1970s, environmental regulations and a growing environmental movement, including both climate movement and the environmental justice movement have emerged to respond to the various threats to the environment. These movements are intertwined with a long history of conservation, starting in the early ...
Environment portal; Politics portal; This category collects individuals, organizations, publications, events and other topics that are relevant to Environmentalism in the United States. Please use the respective subcategories, if existing.
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.