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Environmentalism is the support of or involvement with the environmental movement by environmentalists. It is a social movement which seeks to influence the political process by lobbying, education, activism and setting an example in order to protect natural resources and ecosystems. Some of the issues of concern for the environmental movement are pollution, species extinction, waste reduction, recycling, the threat of global warming and ozone depletion, and genetically engineered crops.
Environmentalism in fiction
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Environmentalism in musicEnvironmentalism has occasionally been the topic of song lyrics since the 1960s. See Environmental protest songs for a list of such songs. Environmental organisations
Greenpeace is the most prominent international organisation which lobbies on a wide range of environmental issues. Other international organisations such as World Wildlife Fund have specific areas of concern. Many countries have organisations that address general and specific environmenental issues at a local or national level. Critiques of environmentalismSome (Michael Crichton article) see environmentalism as having many of the same characteristics as a Religion including a paradise, a fall from grace, a salvation, and a judgment day, among others. Some environmental groups have been accused of using sensationalist tactics and misinforming the public instead of deferring to scientific evidence. Environmentalists are also sometimes accused of advocating anti-globalization and anti-corporatization which is idealism some say is detrimental to achieving environmental objectives. Post-EnvironmentalismWith all three branches of the United States government firmly in the hands of anti-environmental extremists, and environmentalists powerless to win U.S. action to address the global warming crisis, many environmentalists in 2004 started questioning whether “environmentalism” -- as it was conceived 40 years ago -- is still a useful moral, intellectual and political framework. According to a controversial 2004 essay called “The Death of Environmentalism,” written by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, two environmental strategists, American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but has stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change. These post-environmental thinkers argue that the ecological crises the human species faces in the 21st Century are qualitatively different from the problems the environmental movement was created to address in the 1960s and ‘70s. Climate change and habitat destruction, they argue, are global, more complex, and demand far deeper transformations of the economy, the culture and political life. The consequence of environmentalism’s outdated and arbitrary definition, they argue, is political irrelevancy: American environmentalism today finds itself not only losing ground on the great ecological crises of the day, it is increasingly unable to defend even the basic protections it won 30 and 40 years ago, which are under assault by a potent alliance of religious and economic fundamentalists backed in every way possible by the president of the United States. See also
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