War and national crisis have both fueled and sapped the environmental movement’s political force

Evidence

Both the fundraising and political organizing abilities of environmental organizations have, accordingly, been substantially undercut. Ironically, while it was the hopelessness and social divisiveness of the VietnamWar that helped fuel the environmental movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it is the threat of domestic terrorism and prolonged war in the Middle East that appears to be sapping the movement of much of its political force more than three decades later. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1093

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the earlier war-fueled origin story captured in ch8/ch9 about Vietnam-era environmentalism; pleasant surprise worth flagging. — connects to: The environmental impact of wars begins long before they do, through resource-intensive military build-up — How does war damage the environment?; Reagan-era retrenchment and new imperialist wars coincided with grassroots revolutions worldwide — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 27; The post-war stability system bred the very movements that challenged it — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 147
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Reagan-era retrenchment and new imperialist wars coincided with grassroots revolutions worldwide #exemplifies (0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 27
• The post-war stability system bred the very movements that challenged it #expands (0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 147