The environmental movement succeeded by uniting diverse stakeholders across class lines.

Evidence

Consider, as another instructive example, the diverse set of stakeholders who formed the modern environmental movement between 1965 and 1975. The social forces that led to the establishment in 1970 of the Environmental Protection Agency were driven by youth culture, in part, but the key transformation was the bringing on board of farmers and hunters, blue-collar labor and white-shoe lawyers. During this time, the physical environment came to be understood as a shared problem worthy of collective action. Can we make the protection of the psycho-sensory environment similarly urgent and compelling? — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 218

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the claimed 1965-1975 EPA coalition story historically accurate, or is EPA’s founding more top-down (Nixon, Muskie) than this grassroots narrative suggests?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 218
• XREF: connects to: Environmental justice unites material and postmaterial demands within one political movement. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 272