Global Ecopolitical

Challenges
Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness.
The pattern of industrial development which has been adopted
globally in the last two centuries by both capitalist and socialist
economies has caused unprecedented damage to the physical and
ecological health of our planet.
The earth, oceans, atmosphere, and human actions need to be
considered as a single, coupled system for a thorough understanding
of climate, ecosystems, hydrology, or atmospheric chemistry.
To better understand the key issues surrounding Global Ecopolitics,
it may be beneficial to examine the background to the
environmental movement over time. The environmental movement
is perhaps the most significant contemporary global movement to
have emerged in recent decades.

The relationship between humankind and nature has been the

subject of much debate and enquiry over time.

The environmental movement had its cultural origins in literary

accounts of humanity's relationship with nature, beginning from the
romantic poets such as William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, and Lord Byron, whose works were concerned with the
reconciliation of man and nature.