This Week: How Does the World View Environmentalists?
Dear Readers,
In the first week of February, we explored and compared methods of public transportation around the world.
This week, from February 18-24, we’d like to introduce a topic that’s a little more personal. How do people in different nations view the environment and environmentalists?
To help answer this question, our correspondents around the world will shed light on four areas:
- traditional cultural views: how different cultures see nature and the environment
- attitudes on the street: what the average person has to say about environmentalists
- levels of activism: how environmentally active people are in a particular country
- motivation: what local environmental issues are making people talk
Hopefully, over the course of the week, we will have a better appreciation of the emerging environmental consciousness around the world.
We also hope to bring you, our reader, eye to eye with people of many nationalities to explore what environmental issues motivate each of us to care and inspire us to take action.
As always, please freely contribute your thoughts and observations as we explore attitudes toward the environment and environmentalists around the world.
Looking forward to it! This sounds really interesting.
I’ve done some research on Latina women in environmental justice issues and - although they work on clean water/clean air issues - more often than not they identify themselves as “mothers” or “I’m just doing what’s right” or “I’m just protecting my community.” Rarely does “environmentalism” enter the discussion. So I’m interested to read what you find out!
Sounds great, Gavin. This is the kind of stuff that I’ve been talking/teaching/reading/writing about for the last five years. I’m really looking forward to it.
in the central plains of the US, the word environmentalist is not ever said out loud, although Amish cultures here are mostly respected for practicing ecological agriculture.
it would be detrimental to my social health to be perceived as one of “those environment people “.
in the desert, attitudes are worse, because of the concentration and density of the problems. water shortages–heat–saline leaching–arsenic. the farming communities compete with towns, and results intensify the discourse to enmity.
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