Comments on: Question of the Week: What does “environmentalism” mean to you? http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=qotw-environmentalism EPA's Blog About Our World Mon, 20 May 2013 15:03:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ken Hightower http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-24127 Ken Hightower Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:57:10 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-24127 Environmentalism to me means taking some sort of action to create change. Years ago I started my crusade to remove toxic chemicals from bedrooms by offering our customers an all natural sleep solution in the form of latex mattresses.. I’ve also embarked on an education process to help parents understand the impact of plastic bottles on our landfills and how to eliminate this burden by making some simple changes.

]]> By: neha tandel http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-18868 neha tandel Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:17:57 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-18868 I agree with your thought.. nice..

]]> By: neha tandel http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-18867 neha tandel Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:14:41 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-18867 It means for me to be the whole earth clean and beautiful..
It means we get fresh air to breath, pure water to drink.. also pure food to eat.. And to get this we should use products which are nature friendly. We should recycle the products after its use.. In short we should be careful to not to spoil this mother nature as much as possible… etc..etc..

]]> By: Bonnie Aylor http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-18759 Bonnie Aylor Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:22:10 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-18759 Wow, it’s a lot of things combined into one. It requires a general passion for life in general, a dismissal of the game of power and control and a release into a life where you can hear the earth and all of it’s components literally speaking to you in one form or another and you’ve grown to love that connection, that interaction, so much so that you’ll dedicate your life to protecting those things so that they don’t have to cease to exist, knowing that the human species is important somewhere along the contingency but also knowing that the importance is just the same as the importance of everything else, hence being able to somehow sacrifice and evolve away from the need and desire to be the most powerful and to relax and enjoy what’s already naturally around you. It’s a mindframe, and a lifestyle.

]]> By: Johnny R. http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-18744 Johnny R. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:27:03 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-18744 That’s a joke, right? Save the biosphere by changing toilet paper ( ! ) Meanwhile, a million more people are added to the problem and whatever toilet paper you use won’t stop them from consuming and trashing and birthing more millions to do the same until our gasping biosphere collapses under growing mountains of landfill and oceans of plastic debris. But you won’t even talk about peacefully reducing the human population and recycling 100% of all waste and trash. That might interfere with “progress”!

]]> By: vishal garg http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-18714 vishal garg Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:45:25 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-18714 I think, if we take some thing from environment then we must give it any thing. If we can’t give any thing then we have to protect it, this is the real meaning of environmentalism to me.

]]> By: Jackenson Durand http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-18685 Jackenson Durand Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:17:29 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-18685 The term Environmentalism represents to me aptitude of human Psycho-Philosophy to adept to their environment.
We have been creating by nature environment, we feed ourselves from it. Even, early science came from it. Anyone who can try to preserve this prestigious nature environment would probably improve a different perspective for our living methodological model.

]]> By: Druz http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-18672 Druz Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:33:54 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-18672 We are the stewards of this planet. God created it so. Unfortunately, we have a tendency to go to extremes, and attempt to play God, with extreme prejudice.

Some years ago, I was drilling some wells in Alabama; it was an attempt to intercept and remove a plume of DDT and chlorinated solvents that had contaminated the drinking water supply. While inspecting the cuttings from the borehole, we discovered a tiny blind cave shrimp that had been written off as being extinct. Because of NEPA, we had to stop our drilling and perform an EIS.

For over five years, the “environmentalists” successfully argued in court that the shrimp was worth preserving. Meanwhile, the affected people continued to drink DDT tea.

Go figure….

]]> By: Hussein Nasser al islami http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-18666 Hussein Nasser al islami Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:30:53 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-18666 Never think selfish, future is for homo race. Keep self green until keep nature.

]]> By: sharon http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/qotw-environmentalism/comment-page-1/#comment-18663 sharon Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:26:13 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1032#comment-18663 Environmentalism means cooperating with the environment as a member of it, not controlling it, separated from it.

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