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A video explaining the history of environmentalism

Here you go.

About the speaker:

Robert J. Smith, Director of the Center for Private Conservation, explains in this short video how the modern environmentalist movement began in America. A celebrated author and environmental historian, Smith shows how the antiwar movement during the 1960s evolved into an anti-capitalism movement that pushed for public stewardship of the environment.

Read more by Robert J. Smith here http://cei.org/publications/studies/5811

It’s not really about the environment.