ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to describe the history of the environmentalism movement in Western Europe, including the impact of colonization and the globalization of environmental conservation. The actors are various: from local groups to global scientists’ networks; the environmental topics are connected to the mentalities and values of each context. Western Europe is large, and differences exist from Sweden to Greece, but after the Second World War, the spreading of international institutions (UN) and the European Union sustained the birth of green politics. The second part of this chapter will explore how the post-Rio mobilization has been sustained by NGOs and how the new types of protests are used more and more by groups: civil disobedience, occupation, boycott, and blaming via internet social networks. This part shares questions on a new generation of protest and a new model of the greening of politics. The radicalization is generated by a new generation of activists largely open on environmental justice, social justice, and wide their contest on One Health linking human and planet protection.
