environmentalism
Sign in to saveEnvironmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings. While environmentalism focuses on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism. Ecologism is a term more commonly used in continental European languages, while environmentalism is more commonly used in English, but the words have slightly different connotations.
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Environmentalism is a philosophy and social movement centered on protecting life, habitats, and natural surroundings. It matters because it addresses environmental and nature-related concerns that affect the world we live in, though it can overlap with related ideas like ecologism that also incorporate social perspectives.
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21 sectionsContents
- Definitions
- History
- Ancient history and middle ages
- Industrial Revolution
- 19th century
- 20th century
- 21st century
- Themes
- Bright green environmentalism
- Evangelical environmentalism
- Free market environmentalism
- Labor environmentalism
- Radical environmentalism
- Organizations
- Criticism
- Anti-environmentalism
- Environmentalists
- Violence against activists
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings. While environmentalism focuses on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism. Ecologism is a term more commonly used in continental European languages, while environmentalism is more commonly used in English, but the words have slightly different connotations.
Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and improvement of the natural environment and critical earth system elements or processes such as the climate, and may be referred to as a movement to control pollution or protect plant and animal diversity. For this reason, concepts such as a land ethics, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology, and the biophilia hypothesis figure predominantly. The environmentalist movement encompasses various approaches to addressing environmental issues, including free market environmentalism, evangelical environmentalism, and the environmental conservation movement.