Environmentalism

economics which was a course that seemed very foreign to me. Whilst learning the IB economics curriculum, I began to realise how significant the economic implications of climate change are which was crucial for further development of my passion for environmentalism. The climate has a vast influence on the quality of our daily lives. Earth’s atmosphere forms a thin layer which heats and protects the planet from solar radiation. Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, known as…

endangered species are important to conserve arises. What is the purpose of devoting the effort to protect a single species when so many more exist? The ignorance argument, as Elliott Sober outlines in his article “Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism,” offers a dual-angled answer to this question: (1) we may not currently know the use of an endangered species to us and its extinction obliterates this possibility and (2) the extinction of a species may cause seriously beneficial or…

Who Deserve the Rainforest? More than 50% of the whole Amazon rainforest is being used on cattle ranchers. The different types of groups in the Amazon rainforest have been arguing about who deserves the rainforest. environmentalist are scientists that help protect and study different species in the rainforest. Even though the rainforest provides the cattle ranchers loggers and settlers with resources environmentalist believe that the Amazon rainforest should be preserved. Environmentalist…

When was the last time people talked about the environment? Since the beginning of time, many people have not expressed much interest in the environment and how sustainable it actually is. The current attitudes about climate change, environmentalism, and sustainability is that many people are not informed or ignore what is truly going on in our environment. In other cultures, the government does not keep this information from the people and sets laws to help make the environment sustainable. I…

Analysis of the Rise of American Suburbia and its Influence on Modern Environmentalism Through an average American’s point of view it is a common misconception that modern environmentalism has its roots in the radical protests of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by drug and ‘hippie’ culture. Whilst some more radical grassroots environmental groups or movements could be characterized in this way, the origins of modern environmentalism stem from much earlier in history, all the way back to the…

commons. The central idea of eco-socialism is that through the diffusion of property rights among everyone, a larger number of people are incentivized to not overuse resources, pollute, or otherwise harm the environment. Conversely, free market environmentalism (FME) believes that markets can act as a solution to environmental problems by establishing and managing property rights. The establishing of property rights is a key factor in FME because they transform the environment into an asset…

Bibliography Topic: We live in a post-nature world but environmentalism is not dead. Arias-Maldonado, Manuel. "Rethinking Sustainability in the Anthropocene." Environmental Politics 22.3 (2013): 428-46. (Gabriella Monagan) In the article “Rethinking Sustainability in the Anthropocene,” political theorist Manuel Arias-Maldonado reframes the concept of sustainability and its socio-natural relationship to define a new form of environmentalism in the Anthropocene epoch. The rise of climate…

Germany: 19th century was the starting point of German environmentalism. Postwar environmentalism proved to be a way of liberation. Employing a wide range of methods, activists drew a new picture of Germany’s future. They wanted hilltop wind farms, rooftop solar panels and a post-nuclear nation, a land whose fish would be edible. Nowadays, the majority of Germans support the creation of an economy run on 100% renewable energy, 84% believe that this goal should be achieved “as quickly as possible…

through ethics and moral reasoning is an ongoing contentious debate that has lasted for thousands of years. Two of the largest moral theories to develop in the twentieth century, that try to deal with the world around us, is environmentalism and animal liberation. Environmentalism is best summarized as the moral principle that biotic communities and the relationships within those communities are of the utmost importance to preserve. Animal Liberation represents the belief that sentience of a…

of minority communities into their practices, Guha concedes that most global environmentalism—which also tends to be conducted by developed, white countries—denies developing countries a say in the creation of global environmental consciousness and policy, and is, therefore, hypocritical and inept. It is important to consider how environmentalism has shifted over the last hundred years. For instance, early environmentalism in the United States was primarily focused on the protection of natural…