#environmentalism

#environmentalism

After twenty years of campaigns, though, he sensed that the movement was going nowhere-and missing the deeper point. Too many environmentalists had "no attachment to any actual environment," he complained; they talked up the Earth but showed "no sign of any real, felt attachment to any small part of that Earth." A few years earlier, he had co-founded the Dark Mountain Project to promote what he would call "dark ecology." Its manifesto declared the fight against climate change lost and a "collapse" inevitable.

Anthropologist and environmentalist Margaret Mead inaugurated the first Earth Day in 1970.

Her heart is huge and she is passionate about so many social causes, but sometimes her save the world ethos can be annoying. Case in point: she loves picking up litter that isn't hers. Maybe loves is too strong a word, but she can't help herself when it comes to picking up rubbish, and sometimes I feel it's unnecessary. If she sees a piece of rubbish on the pavement, she will pick it up.

Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered.

During the protest, a tribe member blessed the protesters opposing the construction of an immigration detention center in the Everglades, emphasizing cultural significance amid ongoing tensions.

You're more intimate with the water, because you can get in and out of it. And then the perspective is different because you're standing.

The very idea of de-extinction raises profound questions about the meaning of extinction and how we treat life, whether living, endangered, dead or extinct.

The Kupkas have become familiar faces to other regular walkers, who are very supportive of their actions along the Los Gatos Creek Trail.

The ocean reveals a different way of being, where time is found in the movement of clouds, the ebb and flow of tides, and the surf's pulse.

Prevost stressed it is time to move 'from words to action' on the climate.

Neil Young's new single, "Let's Roll Again," calls for American automakers to build electric cars but misses a broader point about reducing car dependency.

"As long as we let them keep on, there is hope," writes Weisman, referring to the people he writes about in this book.