Who is your favorite environmentalist? And why?

Question

(Note: If you use the words "Al Gore" anywhere in your answer, whether it's "Al Gore, yay!" or "anyone but Al Gore", you will not recieve a best answer. I'm sorry, that's just how it is.)

Answer 1

James M. Taylor, editor of the Environment & Climate News

Answer 2

No Impact Man

he is the man instead of complaining about the damage that society does to the environment he decides to do something to help the environment by leading by example.  he has a blog and a book/documentary coming up.

Answer 3

Ed Begley Jr.!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's walked the walk for a very long time and now with his show on HGTV he can share all of his experience with the world!

If everyone lived even close to how he lives, we'd probably never have an environmental problem again.

Answer 4

John Muir, the original.

Answer 5

Hi!

St. Francis of Assisi, closely followed by those cultures that practiced respect for the whole of nature, many of which have been wiped out.

St. Francis regard for the world has continued to inspire people of all faiths and none from a range of cultural backgrounds. His appeal to Pope and Sultan at a time of Crusade / Jihad is an example that today's leaders would do well to emulate and war is one of the most damaging human activities where the environment is concerned. His understanding of cross species communication also has much to teach us.

Good wishes.

Answer 6

Do you consider Leonardo Dicaprio an environmentalist?

Answer 7

1. President Theodore Roosevelt who set up the National Park   System.

2. John Muir

3. Ansel Adams

Although both Muir and Adams have met their just rewards and left this earth, they both brougnt awareness of the environment in very beautiful ways.

Answer 8

Personal: my mother, she thought be how to have respect for animals and the environment in general

Public: just organisations that promote the safe-keeping of the environment.  Not even one person stands out above the rest, all people in these clubs and organisations are doing the best they can.

Answer 9

Lisa Simpson. She has a big audions , so people listens to what she says. Even if she is a cartoon.

Answer 10

Steve Irwin; I learned a lot about animals from watching his show

Answer 11

Aldo Leopold.  He shared his sentiments so beautifully in "A Sand County Almanac."  A must read for anyone who loves the natural world.

Answer 12

"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road (the one less traveled by) offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth."

--Rachel Carson

Without doubt John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and Aldo Leopold all deserve high praise as outstanding and exceptional environmentalists.

Still, I have to say Rachel Carson is my favorite environmentalist at the moment.  Had she live past 1964 she would have been 100 this year.  We lost here tragically to soon -- she died at the age of 57, just years after "Silent Spring" was published.

I think Carson's greatest contribution as an environmentalists was as a writer.  Her message reached so many and resonated with them in a way few writers have ever achieved.  "Silent Spring" was the alarm that brought people around to seeing the value of (and creating a significant surge of backing) legislation like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.  It also bolstered the power of the EPA and helped create renewed interested in conservationism in the U.S.

An impressive achievement from one book.

Answer 13

The most important environmental figure in this country right now is The Terminator -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has proposed environmental legislation way ahead of any other State.  It's too bad he can't run for President.

Answer 14

My aunt.   She does things like recycle, walk and bike, use less energy,... not because some organization says she should but because they just seem like the right thing to do for the earth.

Answer 15

a silent one- they aren't trying to tell everyone how they should live.