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Section size for Environmentalism (20 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	4,109	4,109
Definitions	3,391	3,391
History	3,764	40,256
Early environmental legislation	6,060	6,060
First environmental movements	16,517	16,517
Post-war expansion	7,215	7,215
21st century and beyond	6,700	6,700
Types	261	2,327
Bright green environmentalism	79	79
Evangelical environmentalism	653	653
Free market environmentalism	435	435
Preservation and conservation	830	830
Radical environmentalism	69	69
Organisations	1,355	1,355
Criticism	6,420	6,420
Environmentalists	5,289	8,217
Assassinations	2,928	2,928
In popular culture	4,298	4,298
See also	452	452
References	465	465
Total	71,290	71,290

Removed further reading list

I've removed this "further reading" list as I don't think it adds value to this global article. Most of the content in this list is rather US-centric. Such a list would also have to be regularly curated and kept up to date. Articles that are important and useful should rather be used for inline citations. EMsmile (talk) 11:51, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apps, Jerry, and Natasha Kassulke. Planting an Idea Critical and Creative Thinking about Environmental Issues (2023) online

Borowy, Iris. "Before UNEP: who was in charge of the global environment? The struggle for institutional responsibility 1968–72." Journal of Global History 14.1 (2019): 87–106.
Daynes, Byron W., and Glen Sussman, eds. White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush (Texas A&M University Press; 2010) 300 pages; evaluates how 12 presidents helped or hindered the cause of environmental protection.
Johnson, Erik W., and Scott Frickel, (2011). "Ecological Threat and the Founding of U.S. National Environmental Movement Organizations, 1962–1998," Social Problems 58 (Aug. 2011), 305–29.
Lear, Linda (1997). Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-3428-8.
Martell, Luke. "Ecology and Society: An Introduction". Polity Press, 1994.
McCormick, John. 1995. The Global Environmental Movement. John Wiley. London. 312 pp. ISBN 9780471949404 OCLC 33832322
Palmer, Joy. Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (Routledge, 2001)
de Steiguer, J. Edward. 2006. The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought. University of Arizona Press. Tucson. 246 pp. ISBN 9780816524617
Tooze, Adam, "Democracy and Its Discontents", The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVI, no. 10 (6 June 2019), pp. 52–53, 56–57. "Democracy has no clear answer for the mindless operation of bureaucratic and [technological power. We may indeed be witnessing its extension in the form of artificial intelligence and robotics. Likewise, after decades of dire warning, the environmental problem remains fundamentally unaddressed.... Bureaucratic overreach and environmental catastrophe are precisely the kinds of slow-moving existential challenges that democracies deal with very badly.... Finally, there is the threat du jour: corporations and the technologies they promote." (pp. 56–57.)
Verweij, Marco; Thompson, Michael (eds), 2006, Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-00230-2
Vogel, David. California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader (2018) 280 pp online review
Woodhouse, Keith M. "The Politics of Ecology: Environmentalism and Liberalism in the 1960s," Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Volume 2, Number 2, 2009, pp. 53–84
World Bank, 2003, "Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World: Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life" Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine, World Development Report 2003, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Oxford University Press.

EMsmile (talk) 11:51, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Removed section on Exergy and availability of resources

I've removed a section that had been added in this edit in 2023. I regard it as essay-like and not WP:DUE. This is the section that I removed: EMsmile (talk) 11:56, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Thermodynamic derived environmentalism is based on the second law of thermodynamics, minimization of exergy disruption (or entropy generation)and the concept of availability. It moves from the milestone work of Jan Szargut who emphasized the relation between exergy and availability,^[1] it is necessary to remember "Exergy Ecology and Democracy".^[2] by Goran Wall, a short essay, which evidences the strict relation that relates exergy disruption with environmental and social disruption. More recently it has verified that governmental emissions and impacts balances underestimate the effective GHG production by means of human processes. In fact, they often neglects the impacts of import/export related emissions. In addition they have analyzed the UN SDGs and the methods which are suggested for verifying the advances of the countries. This activity has evidenced that objective and coherent parameters are missing. Therefore, they suggest the introduction of exergy analysis as the most effective method for estimating the environmental degradation.^[3]^[4] Therefore, a novel fiscal model based on Exergy and availability disruption has been defined as the only possible way for overcoming the problems induced by the globalized markets." EMsmile (talk) 11:56, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Jan Szargut (2005). "Exergy Method: Technical and Ecological Applications". Thermal Science.
^ "Goran Wall". Exergy, ecology and democracy - concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax. International Conference on Energy Systems and Ecology. 1993.
^ Trancossi, M., Pascoa, J., Catellani, T. (2023). "Exergy, ecology and democracy - concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax 30 years after - Part 1: Generalities". Thermal Science. 27 (2 Part B): 1337–1353. doi:10.2298/TSCI220907019T.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Trancossi, M., Pascoa, J., Catellani, T. (2023). "Exergy, ecology and democracy - concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax 30 years after - Part 2: Exergy and UN sustainable development goals". Thermal Science. 27 (3 Part B): 2359–2375. doi:10.2298/TSCI220907020T. S2CID 256687017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[Exergy_Method:_Technical_and_Ecological_Applications-1] Jan Szargut (2005). "Exergy Method: Technical and Ecological Applications". Thermal Science.

[Exergy_Ecology_and_Democracy-2] "Goran Wall". Exergy, ecology and democracy - concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax. International Conference on Energy Systems and Ecology. 1993.

[Exergy,_ecology_and_democracy_-_concepts_of_a_vital_society_or_a_proposal_for_an_exergy_tax_30_years_after_-_Part_1:_Generalities-3] Trancossi, M., Pascoa, J., Catellani, T. (2023). "Exergy, ecology and democracy - concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax 30 years after - Part 1: Generalities". Thermal Science. 27 (2 Part B): 1337–1353. doi:10.2298/TSCI220907019T.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[Exergy,_ecology_and_democracy_-_concepts_of_a_vital_society_or_a_proposal_for_an_exergy_tax_30_years_after_-_Part_2:_Exergy_and_UN_sustainable_development_goals-4] Trancossi, M., Pascoa, J., Catellani, T. (2023). "Exergy, ecology and democracy - concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax 30 years after - Part 2: Exergy and UN sustainable development goals". Thermal Science. 27 (3 Part B): 2359–2375. doi:10.2298/TSCI220907020T. S2CID 256687017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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