Environmental Movements: One or Many?

• Environment movements are led by a group of environmentally conscious volunteers working in different parts of the world Some of them work at the International level but most of them work at the local level and they try to take action against the government’s false decisions on environmental issues.

• The forest movement of the south in Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Continental Africa and India faced various pressures.

• Another group of movements are those involved in the struggle against mega-dams.In every country where is mega-dam is built, one is likely to find an environmental movement opposing it.

• The early 1980s saw the first anti-dam movement launched in the North was the campaign to save the Franklin River and its surrounding forest in Australia. India has experienced some of the leading anti-dam and pro-river movements. Narmada Bachao Andolan is an example of such a movement.

Environmental Movement is a type of social movement that involves individuals or groups of people who have a common interest in protecting the environment and they take actions to bring changes in environmental policies and practices to save the environment from pollution, deforestation, global warming, and climate change.

Environmental and Ecological movements are examples of actions taken by several social pro-environmentalist groups all around the world.

In this article, You will get the Notes of Class 12 Political Science, Chapter 6 – Environmental Movements.