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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]
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.
Jhola Aandolan a mass movement is conducting as fighting against polyethylene carry bags uses and promoting cloth/jute/paper carry bags to protect the environment and nature. Activists in the Indian environmental movement consider global warming, sea levels rising, and glaciers retreating decreasing the amount of water flowing into streams to ...
Much environmental activism is directed towards conservation [66] as well as the prevention or elimination of pollution. However, conservation movements ; ecology movements ; peace movements ; green parties ; green- and eco-anarchists often subscribe to very different ideologies, while supporting the same goals as those who call themselves ...
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental activist who challenged world leaders to take action and inspired millions to protest and march over climate change turns 20-years-old today. It was that ...
Eco-warrior is defined by The Oxford English Dictionary as "a person who actively tries to prevent damage to the environment ". [1] In academic discourse, this term is contextualized as a response to systemic environmental harm where activists challenge industrial or governmental entities. [2]
A land defender, land protector, or environmental defender is an activist who works to protect ecosystems and the human right to a safe, healthy environment. [1] [2] [3] Often, defenders are members of Indigenous communities who are protecting property rights of ancestral lands in the face of expropriation, pollution, depletion, or destruction ...
The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — was awarded Thursday to environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian ...