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Environmental Movement Encyclopedia @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The roots of this 'environmental crisis' are thought to lie in the rapid increase in global population (and hence growing demand for natural resources and energy, and growing pressures on natural systems), as well as a growing alienation of industrialised humanity from the natural environment, short-sightedness, reductionist thinking, avarice and material poverty. |
 | | Environmental Justice is a movement that began in the U.S. in the 1980s and seeks an end to environmental racism. |
 | | Crichton suggested that because environmental issues are so political in nature, policy makers need neutral, conclusive data to base their decisions on, rather than conjecture and rhetoric, and double-blind experiments are the most efficient way to achieve that aim. |
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