Environmentalist

In existence, everything in this world has a purpose that they pursue, represent, and abide by. Animals, forests, and humans all have an existing purpose and when they all coexist and harmonize they create the beauty that this world has a necessity for. This beauty has been preserved and examined by a few environmentalists such as John Muir and Chief Seattle. John Muir wrote a great essay, known as the “The American Forest” which spoke about the great beauty of nature and Chief Seattle gave a great speech known as the “Environmentalist Statement” which spoke about sustainability and the respect we need to provide and invoke. Both environmentalists were great activists that informed the world about the essentials nature has to offer, the consequences…

Naturally, times have changed the way we see things and in the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, hunting was an unregulated and acceptable practice. Licenses today help monitor herds and flocks so their numbers stay in balance with the ecosystem surrounding them. Still considered an environmentalist, I suspect that Roosevelt 's love of hunting would have been squelched to a degree if he knew the long term unsustainable outcome would have thrown his beloved wild lands into…

Environmental Concerns “Should Environmentalists Continue to Be Alarmists?” When it comes to environmental concerns there is always going to be those that tend to care beyond the call of duty, just enough, or not all. Usually, how information is presented and the timing of when it is announced by an Environmentalist can affect how the overall population reacts to the news. It can change their perception of how much each individual will continue to care or not to care for the environment. If for…

plants. Throughout the day you can see the smog and pollution they inject into the air. While these plants may provide some helpful service to us, they may also do more harm than good. It is crucial that we achieve our goals, but we must take care of our planet as we do so. Limbaugh, however, would probably disagree. In his article, “The Environmentalist Mindset,” he discusses his position on the debate of environmentalism. However, his outrageous views couple with his sub-par persuasive writing…

Hypodermics on the Shore (aka “the Syringe Tide”) started a metaphorical fire in America because it sparked an environmentalist movement. The Syringe Tide was an environmental disaster where medical waste washed up along the beaches of Jersey Shore, in New York City, and on Long Island. Before there were any major environmental catastrophes, environmentalists focused on the effective utilization of natural resources. Once events like the Syringe Tide started to occur, environmentalists started…

Deyci Arceo Mrs. Der-Mesropian Sociology 10 M/W 12:30 “Do environmentalists overstate their case?” How we view environmental issues have always been a social problem. Issues include but are not limited to global warming, pollution, power industries, real estate developers, timber companies, oil and mining producers, as well as politics. Symbolic interactions specifically frame alignment will influence our views or beliefs on these subjects. Anti-environmentalists argue that the earth is not as…

The chapter When scientists politicize science by Pielke mainly discusses the controversy over The Skeptical Environmentalist. Pielke elaborates on how the debate is not scientifically framed but instead it is a matter of politics. He states that political figures state opinions and facts that they have come up with through ideology; leaving out any legitimate scientific evidence. He also discusses the fact that these debates typically are just arguments on whether or not the science is real or…

It seems you cant swing a stick without hitting a global warming activist these days. Now, when I first started reading about this phenomenon, I was pretty skeptical. After all, it was only in the 1970s that scientists were warning of another ice age. So I read a book called "The Skeptical Environmentalist" by Bjorn Lomborg. Bjorn is a mathematician and he digs into the available environmental data and starts to evaluate much of the published environmental literature. He finds that a…

the author Robert Kate discusses how we as the people and the nation must go through seven transformations of energy reducers if we want to help reduce the levels of gas emission from greenhouse gases. By following those seven transformations of energy reducers then we are helping reduce the global warming levels. Robert also goes on to discuss that the people that want to help save and retain the Earth’s figure are also the people that are making it difficult to save the Earth because the…

What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff was published in June of 2011. Based on an article of the same name written by Foster and Magdoff and printed in the March 2010 edition of the socialist magazine Monthly Review, the book is described by its publisher “short, readable…manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of ‘green capitalism’ or piecemeal reform.” The work argues that there is no ecological survival inside of…