Are environmental movements successfully changing human relations to nature?

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Are environmental movements successfully changing human relations to nature? Discuss
their achievements and ongoing challenges in striving to create more sustainable worlds.
Introduction
Nature and culture from the eternal times remained two pillars of civilization. With
the onset of industrialization and increased urbanization, there is a constant pressure on the
natural resources. Mass production, increase in population and other adjunct activities lead to
the exploitation of natural resources. The existence of human nature is dependent on the
nature as there is an interspecies relationship between them. This paper is going to address
the relationship between political and environmental movement. It is also going to address
whether environmental movementsare going to affect interrelationship between human and
nature.
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In Australia, environmental movement began outside institutions; it began with the
first generation European naturalists who were inspired by the beauty and unique biodiversity
of their colonised world. Environmental movements evolved from early field naturalist, to the
first national parks that were created to preserve and protect the environment. With time the
societies started to respond to the species that are hunted to the level of extinction. The
environmental movement became the mainstream along with the public outcry following the
extensive culling of koalas. The period between 1915 and 1927, more than 4 million koalas
were killed. Thus during this part of century, the turn was to preserve the endangered species.
When the threats to the iconic species stimulated the public to act, the conservation moment
took some time to grow. After this scattered response to preserving the endangered animal,
soon there was emergence of the land care movement. The farmers initiated the Land care
Movement in Australia and it also has its root in 1960s. This because the growing problem of

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social erosion and soil salinity has an increasing impact the wildlife flora and fauna. This
movement was followed by the anti-litter movement which had the similar root in the 1960
revolution. Littering was seen as the visual pollution and the intent of keeping Australia clean
became the agenda after the construction of Franklin Dam project and Bob brown. They
became the martyrs because they protested and for that reason they were jailed, this proved to
be an impetus of growth of the environmentalism.
After the Lake Pedder damming project in 1972, for the first time government got
involved in the environmental protests. This project got word wide publicity and again with
the help of this project Australia came under the mainstream culture of Australia. This
movement was followed by anti-nuclear movement and last but not the least there is growing
consciousness in the indigenous Australian culture regarding the sustainable use of land care.
Thus following the evolution of the environmental movements in Australia, one can
understand the nature of the movements. Initially these movements were not institutionalised,
with the rise of the modernity, environmental movements grew more complex and numerous.
The locus environmental movements are not just located in the local or national orbit. These
movements are getting involved in the transnational politicsand the duly affected by the
environmental movements. It was after 1960s, often encumbered as one of the significant
years of revolutionary measures, global environmental protests or action did not have the
global in nature (Dilworth and McGregor 2015). The environmental measures were more
based on moral underpinnings rather than having any ideological format. The national
environmental legislation even had the dearth of financial crisis, however after the 1990s the
age of neo-liberalization, there was an increase in the transnational social movement
organization (Gottlieb 2001). With the quantitative increase, there was also the rise of formal
organization. Thus slowly but steadily there was a change in the nature of environmentalism.
People were increasingly became aware of the issues that needs current attention, thus there