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The Great Environmental Movement “Chipko Movement” Chipko Movement is an environmental movement that occurred in rural regions of India in the 1970s. The purpose of this movement was to protect trees and land from people who tried to destroy nature and to use the lands in developing the region. The “Chipko” in Hindi means “embrace”. It came from the action that people who tried to protect the trees embraced the trees. In 1963, Indians living in the land began to try to develop their land. As the development proceeded, the land began to be destroyed and, of course, trees and plants suffered from the development. At that time, there were people who attempted to go against the people who wanted the development. They were just villagers who had been living on the land for a long time. Because their lives were highly dependent on nature and the land, they really did not want the land to be destroyed. But, since the government was also trying to develop the land by implementing many policies...

  As climate change gets worse, more and more people are aware of the seriousness. Last year, people, especially teenagers, worked hard for the change in the climate which is occured due to people’s activities. Starting from 2018, from 180 countries, students held protests for the change and direct behavior from leaders of the countries. Teenagers placed at the first line and with the ‘Fridays for Future’ slogan, they announced and shared the seriousness of the climate change in that year. That was the biggest world climate demonstration. It changed people’s perspective from recognition of climate change. Moreover, the leaders also realized the seriousness and participated with this flow. They shared the opinions to solve the causes and damages from climate change.  This strike is from the Sweden climate activist. Greta Thunberg started the global climate strike in 2018 alone. He started lonely, however it became bigger and bigger as the supporters became large. They also spre...

  Hyewon Lee Topic: The Navdanya Movement Date: 2021/12/09 The Navdanya movement was initiated in India to protect biodiversity and to promote the seed-saving movement around the world. It was founded by woman environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva as she wanted to guarantee seed freedom and food sovereignty for small farmers. This movement has progressed for about 30 years and was first initiated due to the sudden outbreak of the GMO crisis, which involves various health issues such as toxicity and allergenicity. The goal of the Navdanya movement is to ensure a new society in which economic justice and ecological responsibilities exist among consumers and farmers. Arising from this movement, Navdanya International was established in Italy in 2011 to demonstrate such qualities at an international level. One of its promotions refers to the Global Movement for Seed Freedom, which was launched to create unity among diverse organizations that have shown interest in saving seeds. As a matte...

Serious, But Soluble Since the industrial revolution, humans began to develop what was not discovered since then. People digged grounds, extracted oils and gained coals from the earth. Although it is good to use them to develop technologies and make lives comfortable, they have negative effects on humans and the earth by causing severe air pollution. There are many things that cause air pollution. Firstly, greenhouse gases primarily cause air pollution. These greenhouse gases are usually formed by combustion or burning of fossil fuels, such as oils and coals, in order to produce energy needed in our lives. The greenhouse gases are released to the atmosphere and, at that point, they cause the problem that they trap heat from the sun in the atmosphere, which increases the temperature of the earth. Also, they create more smog, mold, and pollen in the environment. Secondly, smog causes air pollution. It is formed by burning sulfides and chemical reactions between sunlight and nitrogen oxid...

  As the environment is getting worse and changing a lot, not only people but also animals are suffering the damage. In conclusion, all these victims, several animals are to be damaged which isn’t allowed to live in the world. Therefore, there are lots of endangered animals in the red level. There are several levels to distinguish endangered animals. According to IUCN, the endangered levels are  divided into 7 levels : extinct (ex), extinct in the wild (ew), critically endangered (cr), endangered (en), vulnerable (vu), near threatened (nt), conservation dependent (cd), and least concern (lc) IUCN is the organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. They are working for endangered animals and whole nature from a change.  For the specific animals, there are 10 animals on the most endangered levels. They are Javan rhinoceros, vaquita, mountain gorillas, tigers, Asian elephants, orangutans, leatherback sea turtles, snow leo...

     Ecosystem is a group of living things and their surroundings which interact with each other. There are many factors that can affect animals living in ecosystems (such as rivers, ocean, forests, mountains and even underground) as air pollution is further added. Since nature has changed due to air pollution, many living things are suffering and also change their habitats or living ways. Ecosystems are circulation of living things, including animals and plants, when they are consumed by the upper level and produced by excretion from the highest-level animals. It means that all living things are linked through the ecological pyramid and food chain. If the producers are affected by the poor air quality and not produced well as before, then the upper classes, primary consumers and secondary consumers are also affected negatively because there will be less producers that they can consume to survive. How is the environment affected by air quality? When air pollution appears ...