Environmentalism
Environmentalism is the support or involvement with the Environmental movement by environmentalists.
It is a Social movement which seeks to influence the political process by lobbying, education and activism in order to protect natural resources and ecosystems. Some of the issues of concern for the environmental movement are Pollution, Species extinction, Waste reduction, Recycling, the threat of Global warming and Ozone depletion, and genetically engineered foods.
Environmentalism in fiction
- Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang.
- T.C. Boyle's A Friend of the Earth.
- Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia. Story of a society founded on eco-awareness, alternative tech, social responsibility, and personal self-actualization.
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.
- Michael Crichton's State of Fear
- Ben Elton's Stark
- Mandy Hagar's Run for the Trees A children's book on native Forest Logging in New Zealand.
- Derek Hansen's Blockade. A story about the logging of Australian Rainforest.
- Frank Herbert's Dune
- Carl Hiaasen's Sick Puppy and Skinny Dip.
- Richard Preston's The Cobra Event. A scientist attempts to release a deadly virus in order to reduce the world's population.
- Neal Stephenson's Zodiac.
- Dr. Seuss's The Lorax.
- David Brin's Earth.
Environmentalism in nonfiction
- Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run by David Brower
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- The War Against the Greens by David Helvarg (1994)
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- The Everglades: River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by Dave Foreman
- Going Green: How to Communicate Your Company's Environmental Commitment by E. Bruce Harrison
- The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg
- Ecodefense: A Guide to Monkywrenching edited by Dave Foreman