environmental advocacy
Fighting for nature
Environmental advocacy is the active promotion of policies, practices, and awareness aimed at protecting the natural world.
It ranges from grassroots campaigns against local pollution to global movements addressing climate change.
Environmental advocates lobby governments, organize protests, file lawsuits, and educate the public: Her environmental advocacy began with fighting a pipeline through her community.
The term covers both professional activism and individual efforts to influence environmental policy.
- climate strikeOrganized protest demanding environmental policy
- marchRhythmic group walk
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
environmental justice · protest · citizen science · eco-literacy · conservation · carbon tax · clean energy · reforestation · habitat restoration · social movements · community organizing · direct action · tree hugger · corporate accountability · grassroots campaigns · regulation · petitions · rally
- Miss Eartheco-fashion, tree planting, beach cleanup, sash, crown
- science studiesscience communication, science policy, science education, public understanding, science literacy
- green faithenvironmental stewardship, sacred earth, stewardship, dominion, tending
environmental advocacyanti-environmentalism
Opposition to ecological protection
environmental advocacystrip mining
Removing overburden for minerals
overfishing · habitat destruction · clear-cutting · ecocide · resource extraction