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...Traditionally the environmental community has been made up of older, independently wealthy, well-educated people," Boulton says. "The stereotype is that those people have time to worry about these things...
...Boulton says the role of women and residents of urban and rural areas in environmentalism has increased...
...Boulton says the trend appeared in the late-1980s, when researchers began looking into the effects of environmental hazards on the female reproductive system and on residents of lower-income, urban areas...
According to Boulton, in the late 1980s a feeling pervaded environmentalism that it had accomplished all its goals, even though there was more work to be done. As a result, the movement suffered a drop-off in action, he says...
...recover, environmentalists began to work on educating the public about the issues, Boulton says. Grewal agrees, saying the environmental movement has taken on a more academic focus over the past year than had characterized it before...