richard kerridge "environmental criticism" an introdution
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ENVIRONMENTAL CRITICISM:
AN INTRODUCTION
Environmentalism began to take shape in the
second half of the twentieth century, in response to
perceptions to how dangerous environmental
damage.
It not only talks about wild life and wilderness but
also to human health, food, shelter, and they are
global as well as local.
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION
Industrial Pollution is a main threat with destructive
ways of consuming natural resources.
These are modern phenomena, products of
industry and the application of industrial methods to
traditional harvest and husbandry.
Environmentalism is both a critic of industrial
modernity and another product of it, a distinctively
modern movement.
In the late 1980s, reports began to appear of
concern among scientists about climate changes
though to be a occurring because of increasing
levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere.
Among the possible consequences are flooding
desertification, famine.
But there are few single events large enough to
shock the world into action - and those there are,
search as the Chernobyl nuclear power station
disaster in 1986.
Environmental themes feature abundantly in
culture: in advertisements, literary novels, poems,
tourism, television wild life documentaries, movies,
books and short animation and full length films for
children.
Environmentalists warn against popular objects of
desire - cars, especially-that symbolize success
and good life.