Sentences with phrase «earth movement started»

This latest back - to - the - earth movement started in England about a dozen years ago, then spread to the United States, where four green cemeteries have blossomed, including one in upstate New York.

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This creates a stop start movement in the magma as it makes its way towards Earth's surface.

It also started the modern environmental movement, the anniversary of which we celebrate as Earth Day every April 22.

At a September 27, 2014 panel discussion at Queens Museum titled «Climate Wars: Propaganda, Debate, and the Propaganda of Debate,» Hoggan revealed that he was inspired to start DeSmogBlog by the work of Ross Gelbspan, a retired journalist who helped launch the modern environmental movement and spread the slanderous narrative of Al Gore's Earth in the Balance (page 160) that skeptical scientists are paid shills of fossil fuel companies hired to neutralize public support for government climate programs.

In 1969, an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California released a few million gallons of oil into marine ecosystems — eight months later, it was among the primary catalysts for the biggest pro-environmental movement in the nation's history, starting with the first Earth Day.

I suspect there may be considerable drawback in the environmental movement as more of the «activists» start coming to the realization that the problem of environmental degradation and extractive processes (of all sorts, not just fossil fuels) is simply not resolvable; that the most unsustainable thing on earth is industrial civilization; that industrial civilization IS itself inherently an extractive process, and that no extractive process is ecologically benign.