Environmentalism
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Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter. 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. Ecologism is more commonly used in continental European languages while ‘environmentalism’ is more commonly used in English but the words have slightly different connotations.
Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and/or improvement of the natural environment, and may be referred to as a movement to control pollution or protect plant and animal diversity.<ref>{{
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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. The exact measures and outcomes of this balance is controversial and there are many different ways for environmental concerns to be expressed in practice. Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented by the color green,<ref name="Light, Dark and Bright Green Environmentalism">{{
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Environmentalism is opposed by anti-environmentalism, which says that the Earth is less fragile than some environmentalists maintain, and portrays environmentalism as overreacting to the human contribution to climate change or opposing human advancement.<ref name=rowell>Template:Cite book</ref>
See also
- Conservation ethic
- Conservation movement
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- Curbing fossil fuel usage
- Do it yourself (DIY)
- Ecofeminism
- Ecology movement
- Environmental movement
- Environmental organizations
- Environmental sociology
- Environmentalism in film and television
- Environmentalism in music
- Evangelical environmentalism
- Free-market environmentalism
- Green politics
- Human impact on the environment
- List of environmental websites
- Permaculture
- Planetary boundaries
- Positive environmentalism
- Satya
- Stewardship (theology)
- Sustainability and systemic change resistance
- Mithun Roy Chowdhury, The President of Save Nature & Wildlifw (SNW), Bangladesh.