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Wiki Education assignment: Preparatory Composition

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 27 August 2024 and 12 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Monmon07 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Monmon07 (talk) 18:51, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Removed further reading list

I've removed the further reading list as I find it not useful. It's rambling, US-centric, not curated, and some entries don't even contain a publication nor a URL. It might have been somewhat useful in the days when Wikipedia articles didn't have in-line citations. But nowadays it's not adding value. EMsmile (talk) 13:13, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

• Brinkley, Douglas. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022) excerpt
• Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. (Island Press, 1993(). ISBN 978-1559638326
• Guha, Ramachandra. Environmentalism: A Global History, (Longman, 1999)
• Kennedy, Emily Huddart. Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment (Princeton UP, 2013) Finds five responses: Eco-Engaged (highly engaged moralistic liberals); Self-Effacing (concerned, but doubt they can do much); Optimists (conservatives comfortable with today's environment); Fatalists (pessimists); and the Indifferent (who just don't care)., Longman.
• Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest, (Penguin., 2007)
• Martin, Laura. 2022. Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration. (Harvard UP, 2022) ISBN 9780674979420
• Kamieniecki, Sheldon, ed. Environmental Politics in the International Arena: Movements, Parties, Organizations, and Policy, (SUNY Press, 1993) ISBN 0-7914-1664-X

• Kennedy, Emily Huddart. Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment (Princeton UP, 2013) Finds five responses: Eco-Engaged (highly engaged moralistic liberals); Self-Effacing (concerned, but doubt they can do much); Optimists (conservatives comfortable with today's environment); Fatalists (pessimists); and the Indifferent (who just don't care).
• Kline, Benjamin. First Along the River: A brief history of the U.S. environmental movement (4th ed. 2011)
• McCormick, John. 1995. The Global Environmental Movement, London: John Wiley.
• Rosier, Paul C. Environmental Justice in North America (Routledge, 2024) online book review
• Shabecoff, Philip. A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, (Island Press, 2003) ISBN 1-55963-437-5
• Taylor, Dorceta. The Rise of the American Conservation Movement. (Duke UP, 2016.), ISBN 978-0-8223-6198-5
• de Steiguer, Joseph E. (2006). The origins of modern environmental thought. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2461-7. OCLC 64486430.
• Wapner, Paul. Environmental Activism and World Civil Politics(SUNY Press, 1996)ISBN 0-7914-2790-0

EMsmile (talk) 13:13, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Move history section to environmentalism?

I notice the earlier discussion on merging this article with environmentalism from a year ago. If I had seen it then, I probably would have supported a merger. There was no consensus at the time. If we keep them separate then I think we should tighten them up and be clear why we need two articles. For example, the two history sections have a lot of overlap and essentially talk about the same thing.

I therefore suggest the move the history section from here in its entirety over to environmentalism and to just leave a link across. An alternative approach would be to try to delineate a history of "environmentalism" as distinct from a history of "environmental movement" but I really don't see how this could be done.

My approach would be to rework the two articles so that environmentalism would be the overarching parent article and environmental movement would become a daughter article which is mostly just talking about the situation by country. Perhaps even rename it to environmental movement by country. See also my comment about the previous version of "environmentalists" which I put here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Environmentalism#Move_anything_from_environmentalist? Pinging some people who were previously involved in the merger discussion: User:FatalSubjectivities, User:Arcahaeoindris, User:Klbrain, User:Tytire, User:Sebbog13. EMsmile (talk) 09:53, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Update: I've done a bit of work on this article now in parallel with work on environmentalism. With regards to the content in the history section I noticed:

• There was a lot of the same text under history here and in the history section of environmentalism.
• There was a lot of content that was actually about England but written as if it was somehow global in nature. Hence this article was (like many Wikipedia articles) very much Global North focused, as if the developments in Europe and the United States were all that mattered globally.

What I've changed now:

• I moved the history content that was specific for the UK further down in the article into a new country section called "United Kingdom".
• I moved history content from here to environmentalism; often times I found it was already there, i.e. the exact same content was in both articles.
• I re-arranged it so that the main article for the history content is now environmentalism with only a small text block and link remaining here.

This is still work in progress. I found a lot of content (in both articles) that was poorly written, unsourced, outdated, too specific for one country, essay-like from students and so forth. EMsmile (talk) 18:48, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @EMsmile much improved with less duplication. What I find somehow underrepresented across the two articles is a presentation of the main ideas /ideological strands. I spent quite a bit of time on the Italian article, in case it may offer some ideas. Tytire (talk) 22:04, 6 August 2025 (UTC)