Environmentalism

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The movement to protect the natural world and conserve resources, which gained momentum in the 20th century.

Climate Change: The long-term alteration of Earth's climate and its natural processes caused by human activity, including pollution, deforestation, and fossil fuel burning.
Sustainable Development: Approach to economic development that emphasizes meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Biodiversity: The diversity of life in a given ecosystem, including plant and animal species, genetic diversity, and ecosystem diversity.
Pollution: The introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment which affect humans and other living organisms.
Environmental Law and Policies: Regulatory measures and programs that aim to protect natural resources and ecosystems, reduce pollution, and promote sustainable development.
Green Energy: Alternatives to fossil fuels, including solar, wind, hydro and biomass energy, that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Waste Management: The collection, transportation, and disposal of waste materials in a safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible manner.
Deforestation: The clearance of forests or tree stands with the intention to convert the land to other forms of use.
Water scarcity and water pollution: The lack of adequate water resources for human needs, and the contamination of water bodies by pollutants.
Globalization and Environmentalism: The ways that political, economic, and social forces across the world impact environmental issues and sustainability.
Gender and Environment: The ways that gender roles, power dynamics, and social norms significantly shape environmentalism.
Urbanization and the Environment: Study on the effects of the growth of urban areas on the natural environment and society.
Agriculture and the Environment: The impact of farming and agriculture on the natural ecosystem and the food system.
Renewable Energy: The promotion, development, and expansion of renewable energy sources that have low environmental impact such as solar, wind or hydropower.
Corporate Social Responsibility: The obligations of businesses and corporations to contribute to sustainable development and promote environmentalism.
Conservationism: Stresses on the preservation and careful management of natural resources.
Preservationism: Seeks to preserve nature in an untouched state, maintaining it in its wild and primitive state.
Animal Rights: Focuses on protecting the rights of animals and treating them in a humane manner.
Deep Ecology: Intense and radical level of environmentalism that roots for environmental sustainability as humanity's only path for survival. Its followers believe that humans are no more important on this planet than any other species.
Eco-Feminism: A type of environmentalism that combines the elements of feminism and environmentalism to elevate the importance of women's knowledge of and relationship with the natural world.
Environmental Justice: An environmentalism philosophy that recognizes the unequal distribution and impact of environmental problems across class, race, and gender lines.
Green Politics: Tries to represent the political aspects of environmentalism and often focuses on environmental regulations and policies.
Sustainable Development: Proposes economic and social policies that are sustainable and balance economic growth with environmental protection.
Eco-Anarchism: Advocates for an anarchist society that ensures biodiversity and ecological preservation.
Climate Justice: That which seeks to mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic climate change and help social and economic structures adapt and overcome.
Techno-Environmentalism: Involves using technology to combat environmental issues like pollution and climate change.
"Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings."
"Ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism, and is more commonly used in continental European languages."
"Land ethics, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology, and the biophilia hypothesis figure predominantly."
"Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and improvement of the natural environment and critical earth system elements or processes."
"Environmentalism is an attempt to balance relations between humans and the various natural systems on which they depend in such a way that all the components are accorded a proper degree of sustainability."
"Environmentalism is opposed by anti-environmentalism."
"Anti-environmentalism says that the Earth is less fragile than some environmentalists maintain."
"Anti-environmentalism portrays environmentalism as overreacting to the human contribution to climate change."
"This association has been appropriated by the marketing industries for the tactic known as greenwashing."
"While environmentalism is more commonly used in English, ecologism is more commonly used in continental European languages."
"Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and improvement of the natural environment and critical earth system elements or processes such as the climate."
"Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented by the colour green."
"Environmentalism focuses more on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics."
"Environmentalism is about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings."
"Land ethics, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology, and the biophilia hypothesis figure predominantly."
"Environmentalism may be referred to as a movement to control pollution."
"There are many different ways for environmental concerns to be expressed in practice."
"Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and improvement of the natural environment and critical earth system elements or processes such as the climate, and protect plant and animal diversity."
"Environmentalism aims to balance relations between humans and natural systems to achieve a proper degree of sustainability."
"Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and improvement of the natural environment and critical earth system elements or processes, and concepts such as a land ethics, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology, and the biophilia hypothesis figure predominantly."