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Environmental activism and its movements

Environmental activism is a social movement that aims to protect the natural world and build sustainable living. These curations trace its history from early pollution events, through the tactical dilemmas activists face, to the environmental justice movement and its roots in the civil rights movement.

Environmental movements and pollution events

The history of environmental movements concerns the environmental movement, sometimes referred to as the ecology movement, a social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful environmental practices in order to create sustainable living. It is an international movement, represented by a range of environmental organizations, from enterprises to grassroots, and varies from country to country.

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How environmental activism navigates tactical dilemmas

Environmental activism is a social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful practices and create sustainable living, recognizing people as part of ecosystems and centering ecology, health, and human rights. What tactics can activists use, and what dilemmas do those tactics raise? The lessons trace how protest strategies move across places and contexts, and consider their limits and consequences.

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How racial discrimination shaped environmental activism

The legacy of the civil rights movement on environmental activism traces environmental injustices across millennia of unrecorded history. The environmental justice movement's origins can be traced to the Indigenous Environmental Movement, in which Indigenous populations have fought displacement and assimilation for sovereignty and land rights for hundreds of years.

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