The modern environmental direct action movement in the United Kingdom started in 1991 with the formation of the first UK "Earth First!" group for a protest at Dungeness nuclear power station. Within t
A policed march at the Balcombe drilling protest in August 2013
Eviction of a treehouse at a camp resisting the Newbury Bypass.
Camp for Climate Action with Drax power station in background
Green Party local councillors opposing fracking in 2018
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The environmental movement, sometimes referred to as the ecology movement, is a social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful environmental practices in order to create sustainab
Environmental direct action in the United Kingdom
…Twyford Down and the M11 link road protest. By 1997, the Government had decided to reduce its road-building plans by two thirds. After this success, the environmental movement then took on local struggles such as fighting a quarry at Stanton Moor and opposing a new runway at Manchester Airport. It grew to include different…
Levels of air pollution rose during the Industrial Revolution, sparking the first modern environmental laws to be passed in the mid-19th century.
Before flue-gas desulfurization was installed, the air-polluting emissions from this power plant in New Mexico contained excessive amounts of sulfur dioxide.
"March Against Monsanto", Vancouver, Canada, 25 May 2013
Original title page of Walden by Henry David Thoreau