The environmental movement

Christopher Rootes

pp. 295-305

in: Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth (eds), 1968 in Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Abstract

There is a popular version of recent history that portrays every instance of protest and every social movement as a part or a consequence of the participatory surge of the late 1960s. But, particularly in the case of the environmental movement, that is to misunderstand and misrepresent the course of events.