Animal rights is a hot topic on many high school and college campuses. Often, supporters of animal rights hold an emotionally-charged position based on images of animals in laboratory cages or slaughterhouses, while...
Environmental Movements
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You have heard the rhetoric: the suburbs are unsustainable, destroy farmland, lack community, and cause global warming. "Anti-Sprawl" messages are popular and the images of friendlier neighborhoods and healthier...
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Has civilization ruined everything that was good and pure about man? Were we, in our early existence, a peaceful and ecologically savvy race? Were the wars we fought small and relatively non-violent compared to the...
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When it comes to protecting the environment, the view held by most people is that while the free market is certainly a formidable force for economic progress and prosperity, it often stands at odds with the...
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Many Americans place a high degree of trust in environmental special interest groups. A 2002 poll commissioned by the Sierra Club found that 57 percent of Americans trust environmental groups for information on...
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Religion can be defined as a reverence for and devotion to something greater than the self; it is a system of belief that supersedes all else; and it is a belief in the sacred. Modern environmentalism, influenced by...
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Politics, not science, explains much of the hype and controversy over global warming.
The global warming issue and the proposed solutions to global warming neatly dovetail with many...