Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT Environmental Movement Angela Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on November 19, 2017 for Instructor Darius Williams G142 Introduction into Sociology. 1 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT 2 Abstract This paper will examine the environmental movement in the United States of America, its evolution and phases of ecological progress. Briefly, this campaign was first initiated to conserve parts of the US that were perceived to be for only the rich in which their primary concern was the protection and management of the natural resources. However, this has changed from 19th century to date, classifying the initiative into four phases (Rootes, 2014). These are modern environmentalism, conservation, and preservation, the rise of grassroots environmentalism and mainstream environmentalism. This concern has led to the increase of lots of movements whose aim is to protect, manage and conserve both natural and human-made resource for people’s continuity and survival. ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT 3 Introduction Environmental issues have been the talk of every corner of the world in which world leaders are concerned with the rate at which human beings have continuously destroyed the natural environment (Rootes, 2014). Among these problems is the global warming, pollution of water resources as well as the vegetation cover. The government of the US has developed mechanisms of ensuring the environment gets protected by working with other social and nongovernmental organizations. Importance of the study The reason why I chose this topic is that the environment directly affects us in our daily activities and the rate at which it gets destroyed by ourselves is very heartbreaking. According to various environmentalists, the initiative of protecting the environment started long ago when it was meant for only the rich. This movement was called the preservation and conservation campaign, and its mandate was to ensure natural resources were not destroyed due to development and industrialization that had started in the US (Dunlap, 2014). This era led to another one which was called modern environmentalism which addressed the human activities that contaminate water and air through chemical substances resulting in pollution. This ushered in the mainstream environmentalism era in the 1970s whose concern was to mobilize all the Americans including the corporate world to fight environmental degradation (Dunlap, & Xiao, 2013). This faces some challenges, and after that, the current era of grassroots environmentalism began. This made various social, governmental and non-governmental organizations to mushroom in the US to protect and conserve the environment. ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT Through this research, I hope to learn much about the role the government and other NGOs play in ensuring they stop this high rate of degradation and what are the countermeasures to mitigate this problem and global warming as a whole. 4 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT 5 References Dunlap, R. E., & Xiao, C. (2013). Perceived scientific agreement and support for government action on climate change in the USA. Climatic Change, 119(2), 511-518. Dunlap, R. E. (2014). American environmentalism: The US environmental movement, 1970-1990. Taylor & Francis. Rootes, C. (2014). Environmental movements: local, national and global. Routledge. McCright, A. M. Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT Environmental Movement Angela Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on November 19, 2017 for Instructor Darius Williams G142 Introduction into Sociology. 1 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT 2 Abstract This paper will examine the environmental movement in the United States of America, its evolution and phases of ecological progress. Briefly, this campaign was first initiated to conserve parts of the US that were perceived to be for only the rich in which their primary concern was the protection and management of the natural resources. However, this has changed from 19th century to date, classifying the initiative into four phases (Rootes, 2014). These are modern environmentalism, conservation, and preservation, the rise of grassroots environmentalism and mainstream environmentalism. This concern has led to the increase of lots of movements whose aim is to protect, manage and conserve both natural and human-made resource for people’s continuity and survival. ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT 3 Introduction Environmental issues have been the talk of every corner of the world in which world leaders are concerned with the rate at which human beings have continuously destroyed the natural environment (Rootes, 2014). Among these problems is the global warming, pollution of water resources as well as the vegetation cover. The government of the US has developed mechanisms of ensuring the environment gets protected by working with other social and nongovernmental organizations. Importance of the study The reason why I chose this topic is that the environment directly affects us in our daily activities and the rate at which it gets destroyed by ourselves is very heartbreaking. According to various environmentalists, the initiative of protecting the environment started long ago when it was meant for only the rich. This movement was called the preservation and conservation campaign, and its mandate was to ensure natural resources were not destroyed due to development and industrialization that had started in the US (Dunlap, 2014). This era led to another one which was called modern environmentalism which addressed the human activities that contaminate water and air through chemical substances resulting in pollution. This ushered in the mainstream environmentalism era in the 1970s whose concern was to mobilize all the Americans including the corporate world to fight environmental degradation (Dunlap, & Xiao, 2013). This faces some challenges, and after that, the current era of grassroots environmentalism began. This made various social, governmental and non-governmental organizations to mushroom in the US to protect and conserve the environment. ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT Through this research, I hope to learn much about the role the government and other NGOs play in ensuring they stop this high rate of degradation and what are the countermeasures to mitigate this problem and global warming as a whole. 4 ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT 5 References Dunlap, R. E., & Xiao, C. (2013). Perceived scientific agreement and support for government action on climate change in the USA. Climatic Change, 119(2), 511-518. Dunlap, R. E. (2014). American environmentalism: The US environmental movement, 1970-1990. Taylor & Francis. Rootes, C. (2014). Environmental movements: local, national and global. Routledge. McCright, A. M.
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