Vol. 10 No. 1
Essays

A Meta-Analysis Essay on the Environmental Resistance Movement and the Role of its Deniers

Austin Alan Routt
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Bio

Published 2016-12-07

Keywords

  • environmentalism,
  • environment,
  • resistance,
  • skepticism

How to Cite

Routt, A. A. (2016). A Meta-Analysis Essay on the Environmental Resistance Movement and the Role of its Deniers. URJ-UCCS: Undergraduate Research Journal at UCCS, 10(1), 69–77. Retrieved from https://urj.uccs.edu/index.php/urj/article/view/243

Abstract

The environmental resistance movement, also called the green resistance movement, the ecological resistance movement, or simply environmentalism, is perhaps one of the most discussed and analyzed movements in modern society. As with any resistance movement, it finds places in politics, culture, business, and individual lives, but there are certainly aspects of this particular movement that make it unique. In this analysis, I will bring together current research to make the claim that the environmental resistance movement is unique in the fact that it is, in reality, unopposed. I will analyze the deniers of the scientific basis of environmentalism relating to the role of opposition in resistance movements, rather than as scientific skeptics.