Editing Environmental movement (section)

== Criticisms ==

{{see also|Environmentalism#Criticism|Anti-environmentalism|Criticism of the environmental movement in the United States}}

Conservative critics of the movement characterize it as radical and misguided. Especially critics of the [[United States Endangered Species Act]], which has come under scrutiny lately,{{when|date=October 2022}} and the Clean Air Act, which they said conflict with private property rights, corporate profits and the nation's overall economic growth. Critics also [[Climate change denial|challenge the scientific evidence for global warming]]. They argue that the environmental movement has diverted attention from more pressing issues.<ref name="Culture Wars">{{cite book |last=Chapman |first=Roger |url=https://archive.org/details/culturewarsencyc00chap |title=Culture wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices |publisher=M.E. Sharpe, Inc |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-7656-1761-3 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/culturewarsencyc00chap/page/n197 162] |url-access=limited}}</ref> Western environmental activists have also been criticized for [[performative activism]], [[eco-colonialism]], and enacting [[white savior]] tropes, especially celebrities who promote conservation in developing countries.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Abidin |first1=Crystal |last2=Brockington |first2=Dan |last3=Goodman |first3=Michael K. |last4=Mostafanezhad |first4=Mary |last5=Richey |first5=Lisa Ann |date=17 October 2020 |title=The Tropes of Celebrity Environmentalism |journal=Annual Review of Environment and Resources |language=en |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=387–410 |doi=10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-081703 |issn=1543-5938 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dillon |first1=Nina M. |date=1991 |title=The Feasibility of Debt-For-Nature Swaps |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/ncjint16&div=15&id=&page= |url-status=live |journal=North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation |volume=16 |pages=127 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828080408/https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/ncjint16&div=15&id=&page= |archive-date=28 August 2022 |access-date=28 August 2022}}</ref>

When residents living near proposed developments organize opposition they are sometimes called [[NIMBY|"NIMBYS"]], short for "not in my back yard".<ref>{{cite web |title=Definition of Nimby |url=http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/nimby |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721203623/http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/nimby |archive-date=21 July 2015 |access-date=17 July 2015 |publisher=Macmillan Dictionary}}</ref>