Environmental movements address environmental issues. Environmental movement includes the conservation and green movements centered on ecology, health, and human rights. The environmental movement in the United States began with the conservation movement and the establishment of Hot Springs National Park in 1832. Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and George Perkins Marsh were the early leaders of conservation movement and thus the environmental movement. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment started discussions relating to the state of the global environment. The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation.
The conservation movement is political activism, environmental activism, and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources, including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future. The United States passed the National Environmental Policy Act which laid the foundations for current environmental standards. 'Silent Spring' was one of the most important books for those focussed on the environmental movement.
Ozone depletion, global climate change, acid rain, and harmful genetically modified organisms are now the focus of environmental movements. Cornell University provides an overview of Sociology of Environment and hyperlinks to resources on the Web. Deep Ecology is a set of ideas within the environmental movement which stress the belief that modern societies have become anthropocentric.
What is environmentalism?
How have sociologists responded to the emergence of environmentalism? What is environmental problem? What has sociology to offer the study of environmental problems?
Environmentalism is a philosophy, and social movement regarding environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment. The impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and other matter.
While environmentalism focuses more on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics. The term Ecology is more commonly used in continental European languages while the term environmentalism is commonly used in English with slightly different connotations.
"Give Earth a Chance": The Environmental Movement and the Sixties
In 1969 the Environmental Action for Survival Committee at the University of Michigan began to sell buttons with a slogan. Instead of "Give Peace a Chance," the buttons urged Americans to "Give Earth a Chance." Newsweek soon asked if the buttons might be symbols of a new age of conservation. The popularity of the "Give Earth a Chance" slogan was not happenstance. The rise of the environmental movement owed much to the events of the 1960s. The literature on the sixties slights the environmental movement, while the work on environmentalism neglects the political, social, and cultural history of the sixties. - Adam Rome, Journal of American History.
The Rhetoric of the Environmental Movement
by Ronald Hamowy.
The essay attempts to touch on one aspect of modern environmentalism and to examine it
against the backdrop of the values associated with a truly liberal society. What I hope to
do is to explore certain traits common to the rhetoric of the environmental movement that
I find particularly inimical to rational discourse and that serve only to support
untenable and fallacious conclusions and recommendations that, if accepted, would prove
devastating to civilization.
THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT: SURVIVING THROUGH DIVERSITY - Stacy J. Silveira. Abstract: This Note examines the transformation of the American environmental movements into social movements. It provides a history of the American environmental movement. The environmental movement is traced from its origins as an upper-class movement with a wilderness-centered ideology, to its transformation into a richer more diverse membership and an ideology inclusive of the urban environment. The theoretical underpinnings of the environmental movement in social movement theory are highlighted. As a social movement, the environmental movement has reached its apex with the rise of grassroots environmentalism. First, the endurance of the environmental movement as a social movement is examined, focusing on the structure of the environmental movement. Grassroots environmentalism is situated within social movement theory’s dominant paradigm, New Social Movement theory.
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Transnational
Environmental Movement Organizations' Involvement in Local Campaigns -
Zavestoski, Stephen,
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Abstract: The ways in which the same forces of globalization that expose more and more
people around the world to environmental health risks are also creating new networks of
environmental health activists that link local health social movement struggles to a
global network of environmental health activism. Research into the roles transnational
environmental movement organizations play in local and national campaigns.