Greenpeace, Earth First, And Animal Liberation Front

During the late 1960s, the environmental movement focused mostly on public health and industrial themes. During this time of initial modern development, it received little attention from the champions of the social movements of the times such as civil rights and women’s equality. Most of the emphasis on environmental matters in these early years came from environmentally driven sociologists such as Paul Goodman, Murray Boochkin, and Herbert Marcuse. Many were exhilarated to become the heads of ecologically based institutions that would fight against government and corporation ecological mistreatments. Often times they would research and issue articles that pointed out abuses that directly affected the common household such as Boochkin’s “The Problems of Chemicals in Foods.” This type of research pointed out new types of environmental issues that either did not exist or did not matter before World War II and just now became identified. These types of papers had a message that reached everybody not just select individuals like many of the previous issues such as water management, and land

Environmentalists host one of America's largest political lobbies. Groups such as Greenpeace protest with millions of members worldwide on issues ranging from destruction of rainforests, oil companies, nuclear wastes, Greenhouse effect, and biodiversity.

The Afton protests energized a new faction within the civil rights movement that saw the environment as another front in the struggle for justice. Many early environmental justice leaders came out of the civil rights movement. They brought to the environmental movement the same tactics they had used in civil rights struggles -- marches, petitions, rallies, coalition building, community empowerment through education, litigation and nonviolent direct action,” (The Environmental Justice.) But many argue the fact that even if civil rights did not happen, the community members of government intentionally polluted waste lands would still

The purpose of this piece is to draw awareness to the many contradictions relating environmental justice movements and to create a society more conscious of decisions by considering consequences.

In 1979 the establishment of the English environmental organisation ‘Earth First!’ marked a new era within the environmental movement that quickly spread throughout the world. This new organisation espoused

The emergence of the environmental justice movement in the late 1980s was constructed through local grassroots community groups, socially organized committees, and several scholars

While the ALF concentrates primarily on the Liberation of animals, the ELF or Earth Liberation Fronts primary mission is the protection of the environment from primarily large corporations that would harm the environment for financial gains for just harm the environment out of ignorance. According to ADL.org, in 1980 a group called “Earth First!” was formed. The idea of the group was to protect the environment. But, some of its members didn’t like the pacifist way of doing business, so they formed the Earth Liberation Front in England in 1992. (ADL.org) This group prefers to use “non-violent methods” of burning down buildings and destroying property. They say it’s non-violent because it doesn’t target human or animal related targets. The ELF has set some new record for property damage in the United States; in 1997 they claimed responsibility for a fire that destroyed a $12 million dollar ski lodge in Vail, Colorado. The group said that the lodge threatened key Lynx habitat in the state. They were also involved in $50 Million dollar arson in California where a Hummer dealership was destroyed because they vehicles “murder” the natural environment.

Green Peace has been an advocate for protecting the Earth, their measures are extreme and somewhat effective. Believing that everyone can take part in their way to protect the environment, furthermore you just have to find your path of what you truly believe in. Big industry has recognized that this effects them as well, noticing an abundance of solar panels, wind mills, and geo-thermal type heating and cooling systems that are available today.

Greenpeace is an organization which often collides with governments in countries all over the world in its attempt to stop things like global warming, deforestation, overfishing and more. Greenpeace tries to reach their goals by direct action and lobbying. This is the part where they often collide with the governments.

By the 1970’s, Social activism had become the norm as the population became less satisfied with the actions of the government and the consequences they were having. People where tired of young men being killed in a far off war and the shady start of that war caused fresh distrust in the government. This social turmoil and political activism lead to progressive movements sweeping the country. The movement on the forefront being environmentalism. Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, opened the eyes of many people to the idea that mans actions could have far reaching consequences on the environment and jeopardized the planets future and future generations. Organizations built up that popularized the environmental movement and what was once a movement of eccentrics and hippies made it to the mainstream as the first Earth Day on April 22nd 1970 became a national phenomenon. The first Earth Day happened at a pivotal moment as many consider 1970 to be the height of the counterculture movement and this massive flow of angst and energy caused a large shift in the political and scientific priorities of America. Just eight months after that historic even, Richard Nixon proposed the formation of the environmental protection agency on

In the understanding of the environmental movement and the many organisations that it contains, it is helpful to organise the movements in to categories or groups of shared and similar qualities. Diani and Donati have identified four organisational types based on two conflicting differences- professional or participatory organisation and disruptive or conventional pressure (Carter 2007). These conflicts result in the four organisation types-

Environmentalism in some form goes back decades consisting of a variety of activities that led to policy for preservation and protection open places and spaces (see Ch. 3). Past conservation groups appealed directly to the public and decision-makers, especially youth and counterculture, and

There are an incredible amount of problems facing the modern world. Sometimes the problems go unnoticed while other times they get addressed and fixed. That is what has been happening with pollution and other environmental concerns since 1971. In that year, the organization called Greenpeace was created. Since then the group has jumpstarted many incredible changes dealing with the world around us. Greenpeace has done a great amount of environmental work with the aim of making the world a cleaner, safer, and better place to live.

Taken from www.greenpeace.ca: "Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil

There are issues of the environment that exist within politics therefore it is necessary to define the terms environmentalism, ecologist and green politics. These terms have been used in a variety of ways and of which can be fully understood, so there are in no case accepted definitions. Ecologism refers to a movement that looks to change the nature of humankind’s relationship to its physical environment. It is widely based on the science of ecology which would then suggest it is an ideology in its full sense. Ecologists propose forming a necessary base or core of central importance to the nature of society in order to bring about equally fundamental changes in human kinds relationship to its environment.