environmentalism

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Introduction
Intellectual underpinnings
- Anthropocentric schools of thought
  - Apocalyptic environmentalism
  - Emancipatory environmentalism
- Biocentric schools of thought
  - Social ecology and deep ecology
  - Animal rights
  - Ecofeminism
History of the environmental movement

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Last Updated: Dec 10, 2024 • Article History

Key People:: Robert D. Bullard; Greta Thunberg; Jill Stein; John Muir; Murray Bookchin

Related Topics:: animal rights; ecofeminism; deep ecology; apocalyptic environmentalism; emancipatory environmentalism

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environmentalism, political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities; through the adoption of forms of political, economic, and social organization that are thought to be necessary for, or at least conducive to, the benign treatment of the environment by humans; and through a reassessment of humanity’s relationship with nature. In various ways, environmentalism claims that living things other than humans, and the natural environment as a whole, are deserving of consideration in reasoning about the morality of political, economic, and social policies. For additional discussion ...(100 of 3349 words)

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