ABSTRACT
John Muir, Chico Mendez, Rachel Carson, and Medha Patkar: a passionate advocate of wilderness protection, the union leader fighting to save the Amazon and its people, the scientist who exposed the dangers of pesticides, and the activist opposing the construction of dams can represent the multiplicity of environmentalism, thereby, the difficulty of presenting it as a coherent movement. Following Martinez Alier’s and Guha’s (1997) organization of environmentalism, this chapter presents the three main branches of it (the cult of wilderness, the eco-efficiency approach, and the third-class environmentalism), adding a few nuisances coming from Merchant (2005) (ecomodernism, deep ecology and eco-femminism).
