Grassroots environmentalism grew through local groups led by women and minorities
Evidence
The grassroots environmental movement also increased significantly during the 1980s, but in very different ways. This movement was marked by community-based neighborhood associations, sometimes linked across geographic regions, rather than national organizations. The local groups were not so concerned with broad national issues as they were with threats in their own backyards. Many grassroots leaders were women, racial minorities, or members of low-income communities. While these activists lacked the formal training of the professional staffs of the national groups, they possessed an expertise born out of personal experience and passion. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 549
Categorization
- XREF: Local-knowledge-by-experience theme connects to the course thread of listening/observation-as-method. — connects to: Environmental groups grew to millions of members during the 1970s — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 385; Women dominate grassroots environmentalism because they have readier access to legitimate civic language — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1449; Open-space preservation seeded the local grassroots activism of the postwar environmental movement — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 559 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Women dominate grassroots environmentalism because they have readier access to legitimate civic language
#expands(0.85) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1449 - Environmental racism includes exclusion from ecology movement leadership
#expands(0.80) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1232 - Open-space preservation seeded the local grassroots activism of the postwar environmental movement
#corroborates(0.72) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 559 - Ecofeminism revalues a women-nature connection the west historically devalued to oppress women
#complicates(0.72) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 60