Environmentalism

Environmentalism, also known as environmental rights, is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement that focuses on concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment. This is particularly important because the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact that changes to the environment have on humans, animals, plants, and non-living matter. Compared to ecologism, environmentalism places a greater emphasis on the environmental and nature-related parts of green ideology and politics. Ecologism, on the other hand, blends the environmentalism and social ecology ideologies. Ecologism is a term that is more generally used in the languages of continental Europe, while environmentalism is a term that is more commonly used in English; nonetheless, the two terms convey somewhat different meanings.

It is possible to refer to environmentalism as a movement to either control pollution or protect plant and animal diversity. Environmentalism advocates for the preservation, restoration, and improvement of the natural environment as well as critical elements or processes of the earth's system, such as the climate. Because of this, ideas like a land ethic, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology, and the biophilia hypothesis play a significant role in the narrative.

At its core, environmentalism may be summed up as an effort to strike a healthy equilibrium between human society and the myriad of natural systems on which it is dependent. This equilibrium should ensure that each component enjoys an adequate level of long-term viability. It is debatable what the precise measurements and results of this equilibrium should be, and there are a wide variety of approaches that may be taken when environmental concerns are put into action. The colour green is often used to symbolise environmentalism and environmental concerns; nevertheless, the marketing sectors have co-opted this connection in order to promote a strategy known as greenwashing.

Anti-environmentalism is an ideology that disagrees with environmentalism and argues that the Earth is not as fragile as some environmentalists claim it to be. It also portrays environmentalism as being hypersensitive to the role that humans play in climate change and as being against human progress.