Pelestarian lingkungan hidup

Environmentalism adalah perlindungan lingkungan hidup dari pengaruh-pengaruh luar, misalnya pencemaran, bising, pemanasan global, dan perusakan sumber daya alam.

The historic Blue Marble photograph, which helped bring environmentalism to the public eye.

Salah satu contoh pertama adalah orang-orang Bishnois di Rajasthan, India, yang rela mati demi mencegah penebangan pohon-pohon di desa mereka atas perintah raja.

Beberapa tokoh modern adalah John Muir dan Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau tertarik akan hubungan antara manusia dan lingkungan hidup dan mempelajari hal ini dengan cara hidup dekat dengan alam dengan gaya hidup sederhana.

Buku/Film

• Crimes Against Nature - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
• A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
• Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey (1968)
• Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (1962)
• Walden - Henry David Thoreau
• The Everglades: River of Grass - Marjory Stoneman Douglas
• Encounters with the Archdruid - John McPhee
• Man and Nature - George Perkins Marsh (1864)
• The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists - Michael Brower dan Warren Leon (1999)
• Return of the Primitive (The philosophy of Privation) - Ayn Rand dan Peter Schwartz
• An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore - 2006
• Meat The Truth - Marianne Thieme - 2008

Lihat pula

• Fiscal environmentalism
• Conservation ethic
• Conservation movement
• Wildlife
• Environmental movement
• Worldwide green parties
• Roadless area conservation
• Sustainability
• Ecocentrism
• Eco Progressive
• Environmentalism in the U.S.A.
• California Proposition 65 (1986)
• Environmental agreements
• Wildlife conservation
• Wildlife management
• Ecology
• Ecology movement
• Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
• Women and the environment through history
• Environmental science
• List of environment topics
• Timeline of environmental events
• Science journalism
• Environmental journalism
• Animal rights
• Green economics