Lecture 2

• Environmentalism is a general term that refers to concern for the environment, specifically actions or advocacies to limit the negative impacts of man to the environment (Int’l Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2020)
• Environmentalism was born out of ecological thought but stunted on its rootedness
• Environmentalism focuses on shallow advocacies
• Recycling industry – does not change the fact that it cannot remove man from its   destructive nature
• More efficient engines – still burns fossil fuel and produce carbon footprint
• Ecologism is a new political ideology based on the position that the non-human world is worthy of moral consideration (Baxter, 2000)
• Ecologism defends radical reform of society, zero economic growth and a reduction of population, and the protection of nature against every form of irreversible destruction
• Ecologism is a deep rooted form of environmentalism
• Ecologism focuses on the partnership between human and nature
• Ecologism takes to account that man is only “part” of the ecology of life
• A criticism of ecologism is that it is too idealistic because the majority of the people cannot build a utopic society. After all, it requires detaching oneself from the industrial man and turning into an ecological man.
• Another criticism of ecologism is accessibility, wherein, there is a difficulty to have farmland.
• Some groups employed aggressive tactics for ecologism in the form of sabotage such as through tree spiking to stop logging and other forms of environmental destruction
• Environmentalists are those who advocate for the protection of the environment
• A possible solution for the problems of environmentalism and ecologism is to have a meaningful balance of both because people cannot really adopt deep-rooted ecologism.
• We cannot deny the industrial man because 50% of the population is still relying on industrialization.
• Ecologists believe that humans must live within their means and not exceed them.
• Humans can only use what nature provides without destroying or depleting natural resources.
• Examples which manifests environmentalism's rootedness and shallow advocacies

  Recycling industry and more efficient engines
• Criticisms of ecologism

  Idealistic and Lack of accessibility