environmental activism
Fighting for nature
Environmental activism is organized effort to protect the natural world and address ecological problems.
Activists campaign against pollution, deforestation, climate change, and other threats through protests, lobbying, litigation, and public awareness campaigns.
The term covers everything from local conservation work to global movements: Her environmental activism began with fighting a pipeline through her community.
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- endangered speciesOrganisms facing extinction risk
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- climate strikeOrganized protest demanding environmental policy
ecology · pollution · oil spill · renewable energy · lobbying · citizen science · civil disobedience · grassroots movements · tree hugger · carbon footprint · protests · recycling · ecological restoration · reforestation · divestment · volunteerism · Sierra Club · circular economy
- activismboycotts, advocate, demonstrating, rallies, protests
- eco-thrillerseco-terrorism, ecoterrorism, oil spill, toxic waste, corporate greed
- Latin American Activismsocial movements, grassroots movements, indigenous movements, community organizing, protest movements
- Ogonitraditional practices
- Pacific NorthwestAlaska, Seattle, Oregon, Vancouver, Washington
- East German crimesborder crossing, defection, escape attempts, Stasi, political crimes
environmental activisminaction
Deliberate nonmovement
complacency · disengagement · willful ignorance · do-nothingism · quietism
environmental activismresource extraction
Obtaining substances from nature
industrial pollution · deforestation · ecocide · strip mining · overfishing
environmental activismanti-environmentalism
Opposition to ecological protection
climate skepticism · ecocide · greenwashing · anthropocentrism
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