The environmental movement and its critics
Abstract
The past decade has witnessed a sharpened interest, among both the public
and scientists, in manls environment- often but not alwaysw ith referencet o a
so-called environmental crisis. There has been vastly increased attention in the
mass media; it is reported that some 300 books on the environment, on ecology,
and on pollution were published in the United States in 1972 alone (Sinclair,
1973, p. 176); there has been a dramatic increase both in the size of existing
voluntary associations devoted to the improvement or preservation of some
aspect of the environment and in the number of new ones; public information
and educational activities have flourished; the use of litigation in order to
achieve environmental goals has become common; and the terms "environment"
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Keywords
ecology movement,environmental movement