Quote: "Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings."
Understanding the importance of environmental protection and sustainability.
Climate Change: The long-term alteration of the earth's climate system caused by emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, that result from human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation.
Renewable Energy: Energy sources that are replenished in a relatively short period of time naturally, including solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and biomass.
Sustainability: Maintaining a balance between social, economic, and environmental factors to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Biodiversity: The variety of life in a particular ecosystem, including the number of species, genetic diversity, and ecosystem diversity.
Waste Reduction: Reducing the amount of waste generated and promoting proper disposal methods to minimize the impact on the environment.
Ocean Conservation: Protecting the world's oceans and marine life from pollution, overfishing, and habitat destruction.
Air Pollution: The presence of harmful substances, such as particulates or gases, in the air that can cause health problems or damage to the environment.
Water Conservation: Using water more efficiently and preventing pollution of water resources to conserve and protect freshwater resources.
Environmental Policy: Government laws, regulations, and initiatives aimed at conserving and protecting the environment.
Environmental Justice: The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, in environmental decision-making.
Quote: "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."
Quote: "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."
Quote: "Concepts such as land ethics, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology, and the biophilia hypothesis figure predominantly."
Quote: "At its crux, 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."
Quote: "The exact measures and outcomes of this balance is controversial, and there are many different ways for environmental concerns to be expressed in practice."
Quote: "Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented by the color green..."
Quote: "...but this association has been appropriated by the marketing industries for the tactic known as greenwashing."
Quote: "Environmentalism is opposed by anti-environmentalism..."
Quote: "...which says that the Earth is less fragile than some environmentalists maintain..."
Quote: "...and portrays environmentalism as overreacting to the human contribution to climate change or opposing human advancement."
Quote: "Ecologism is more commonly used in continental European languages..."
Quote: "...while environmentalism is more commonly used in English..."
Quote: "...but the words have slightly different connotations. Environmentalism focuses more on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics."
Quote: "...while ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism."
Quote: "...advocates the preservation, restoration and improvement of the natural environment and critical earth system elements or processes such as the climate..."
Quote: "...may be referred to as a movement to control pollution..."
Quote: "Concepts such as land ethics, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology, and the biophilia hypothesis figure predominantly."
Quote: "...protect plant and animal diversity."
Quote: "...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."