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Social Media and Environmental Activism: Clicktivism or Paradigm shift?
Abstract
Environmentalist groups have often relied on grassroots movements, traditional media or localised campaigns to spread awareness and information regarding various environmental issues. However, over the past decade internet has reinvented the forms and practices of activism all around the world. It allows people to participate in simultaneous movements and gives the activists an alternate space to present their side of the story. The paper examines whether the use of social media spurs environmental activism and public engagement.
Keywords: Environmental Activism, Social Media, Clicktivism, Media Campaigns

Introduction
Social media has gone beyond personal …show more content…

But issues of war and politics dominated the global debates. It was only during 1970s and 80s the problems of the environment were being highlighted. In India the negligence to these issues was worse. The government set up the ministry of environment and forests as late as 1985.
At present we have a number of research institutes, Organisations, NGOs for example, Forest Research Institute, Centre for Science and Environment, Greenpeace, The World Wide Fund for Nature, Swechha which raises awareness about pollution or Aaranyak, which focusses on wildlife conservation. Due to these combined efforts, environmental issues are now part of the national and global discourse.
The key objective of this paper includes:
1) To trace the need and growth of environmental activism.
2) To examine whether the use of social media spurs public engagement or invites …show more content…

It’s today’s capitalism, with its overwhelming commitment to growth at all costs, its devolution of tremendous power into the corporate sector, and its blind faith in a market riddled with externalities. And it is also our own pathetic capitulation to consumerism. Even as the environmental community swims more strongly against the current, the current gets ever stronger and more treacherous, so environmentalism slips under. The only solution is to get out of the water, take a hard look at what is going on a figure what needs to be done to change today’s

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