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One of our greatest international concerns today is environmentalism - how to preserve biodiversity, how to keep our society and business environmentally-friendly and how to attain our hopes and necessities for development and sustainability. Our environmental concern started when our environment was affected by pollutions in the air, water, soil, and later in our bodies and minds. Carbon dioxide emissions caused photochemical smog in urban centers in 1950s. Chemical fertilizers have polluted soil in farm lands and rivers since 1960s. Toxic chemical substances polluted river water and seawater and injured living creatures there, and eventually triggered human sicknesses and diseases or death of plants and animals. So, ecologists have been focusing ecological research and scientific studies on various human activities in the world. In order to save and sustain everything living on the planet Earth, people living now should cooperate with each other - among communities and nations, through social and international networks. Environmentalists called "greens" have been working out eco-friendly systems and environmentally-friendly businesses and lifestyles. Green-friendly activists organized Green Party in different countries. The "Greens" prevail in European Community in particular to work on green issues. Greenpeace first claimed to protect such endangered species as dolphins, whales and other mammals, but gradually became radical with the purpose of protesting nuclear proliferation in fear of the Nuclear Winter and in order to save the Earth and its future. The global attention recently is focused on global warming. Greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide gas emissions cause climate change. Trying to reduce carbon footprints, amount of carbon gas, biotechnologists have made innovations while politicians have levied carbon taxes and industrialists keep talking about trading carbon credits. The world's political leaders annually hold COP conventions to realize carbon caps. In this paper, I discuss when the terms depicting environmentalists, ecological approaches, green issues, and Green activities were coined, and also how they proliferated. |
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