exposure. Groups like Earth First! take a much more radical posture. Some radical environmentalist groups, like Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front, illegally sabotage or destroy infrastructural capital. Criticisms 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, and the Clean Air Act, which they said conflict with private property rights, corporate profits and the nation's overall economic growth. Critics also challenge the scientific evidence for global warming. They argue that the environmental movement has diverted attention from more pressing issues. 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. See also AI and Environment Anti-consumerism Chemical Leasing Carbon Neutrality Car-free movement Earth Science Earth Strike Eco-anarchism Eco-socialism Ecofascism Ecological economics Ecological modernization Ecopsychology Environmental justice Environmental philosophy Environmental organizations Family planning Free-market environmentalism Green anarchism Green movement Green seniors Green syndicalism Holistic management National Cleanup Day Natural environment Political ecology Positive environmentalism Sexecology Social ecology Substitute good Sustainability Sustainability and systemic change resistance Technogaianism Timeline of environmental events Voluntary Human Extinction Movement List of women climate scientists and activists References Further reading Brinkley, Douglas. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022) excerpt Guha, Ramachandra. 1999. Environmentalism: A Global History, London, Longman. Hawken, Paul. 2007. Blessed Unrest, Penguin. Kamieniecki, Sheldon, ed. 1993. Environmental Politics in the International Arena: Movements, Parties, Organizations, and Policy, Albany: State University of New York Press, Kline, Benjamin. First Along the River: A brief history of the U.S. environmental movement (4th ed. 2011) McCormick, John. 1995. The Global Environmental Movement, London: John Wiley. Shabecoff, Philip. 2003. A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, Island Press; Revised Edition, Wapner, Paul. 1996. Environmental Activism and World Civil Politics, Albany: State University of New York, Environmental movements Environmentalism Movement