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Phil Radford – environmental, clean energy, and democracy leader, director of Greenpeace; Bradbury Robinson – medical doctor and conservationist who published warnings in the 1940s against the use of DDT in agricultural; Theodore Roosevelt – set aside 194,000,000 acres (790,000 km 2) of federal land for national parks and nature preserves.
The agreement provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna, and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas. It prohibits all activities relating to mineral resources except scientific.
Heroes of the Environment was an annual list of notable environmentalists chosen and compiled by Time magazine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The list appeared for three years from 2007 to 2009.
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.
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 ...
[172] [173] The Club now became the first large-scale environmental preservation organization in the world, best known for systematic lobbying of politicians to promote environmentalist policies. Major activities include promoting sustainable energy and mitigating global warming , as well as opposition to the use of coal , hydropower , and ...
John Muir (/ m jʊər / MURE; April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), [1] also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", [2] was a Scottish-born American [3] [4]: 42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.
Those listed here may be categorised as environmentalists or conservationists. Subcategories. This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. ...