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The Psychology Environmentalism - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 27th Nov, 2006 - 2:32am
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The Psychology Of Environmentalism
Why do you think the way you do about the environment and about environmental causes? Here is one reason (emphasis mine):
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Post Date: 27th Nov, 2006 - 2:32am / Post ID: #
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I believe the way I do because it is unreasonable to believe that we make no negative impact on the environment. Industrialism has brought about greatly needed technology for the world, but also great pollution. The waste we produce is deadly to individuals in high enough doses. Why would we not think its bad for all other living things and our planet? To me, it only makes sense.
However, the environmentalist movement has become more of an anti-establishment movement in the last ten to fifteen years. To many uneducated people that really don't even know about the environment, they just like being anti-something. Being anti-government and anti-corporation is good, but its not part of environmentalism. To many young people just latch onto it because its so glamorous to be part of something big.
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