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Article: Environmentalism and student activism. (includes role model profile and directory of organizations) (Annual Jobs Issue)
- Article from:
- The Black Collegian
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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Environmentalism. What does that term bring to mind? Highway beautification projects? Recycling paper and aluminum cans? Preserving endangered species like the spotted owl? A gigantic oil spill off the coast of Alaska? Depletion of the rain forests in the Amazon?
All of these concerns, and hundreds more, are at the heart of environmentalism. Yet the term refers to more than so many "pet issues" espoused by students of ecology.
Environmentalism is a social activist movement that has spread around the world. It is based on the premise that rational thinking people should not passively watch the Earth (and the life it sustains) be depleted of natural resources ...