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Radical Environmentalism


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Radical Environmentalism
The tactics, effectiveness, evolution, politics and examples of global activist ecological groups, focusing on Greenpeace and the Green Party.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages) | 17 sources | 2000 United States


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"Radical environmentalism is a term that calls up images of subversive maneuvers performed by those with extremist views who give no quarter to the governments and corporations that persist in polluting the earth and squandering its resources. But much of the force of the word "radical" (or even "environmentalism") is a function of the individual's perspective. Radical environmentalism has two strands that occasionally interact and are, in general terms, "those who favor the preservation of nature for nature's sake and those who wish only to maintain the environment as the necessary habitat of humankind" (Lewis 17). The first are the so-called "deep ecology" movement, or movements, whose adherents stress the principles of "biospherical egalitarianism" in a platform described by Devall and Sessions as based on the proposition that "the well-being and flourishing of..."

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Radical Environmentalism (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Radical-Environmentalism/15613

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"Radical Environmentalism" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-Radical-Environmentalism/15613>




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