The introduction to Envirnomental Criticism a Critical work by Richard Kerridge

1. ENVIRONMENTAL CRITICISM:
AN INTRODUCTION

2.  Environmentalism began to take shape in the
second half of the twentieth century, in response to
perceptions to how dangerous environmental
damage.
 It not only talks about wild life and wilderness but
also to human health, food, shelter, and they are
global as well as local.

3. INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION
 Industrial Pollution is a main threat with destructive
ways of consuming natural resources.
 These are modern phenomena, products of
industry and the application of industrial methods to
traditional harvest and husbandry.

4.  Environmentalism is both a critic of industrial
modernity and another product of it, a distinctively
modern movement.
 In the late 1980s, reports began to appear of
concern among scientists about climate changes
though to be a occurring because of increasing
levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere.

5.  Among the possible consequences are flooding
desertification, famine.
 But there are few single events large enough to
shock the world into action - and those there are,
search as the Chernobyl nuclear power station
disaster in 1986.

6.  Environmental themes feature abundantly in
culture: in advertisements, literary novels, poems,
tourism, television wild life documentaries, movies,
books and short animation and full length films for
children.
 Environmentalists warn against popular objects of
desire - cars, especially-that symbolize success
and good life.