Passionate students often mobilize to fight for causes they believe in intensely. Earth Day, which is often recognized as the birth of the large-scale environmental movement, was originally a university based movement. SEAC's increasing success in mobilizing thousands of studnets around national and regional issues is indicative of the importance of networking as environmental awareness increases.
Women are a significant and crucial asset to university activism.
Environmental issues are often linked to women's issues since both problems involve an essential absence of respect and understanding. Increased rates of cancer and damage to reproductive cycles are problems faced by all women as a direct result of ecological degradation. If environmental problems are to be solved, the strong voice of young women who are directly affected by these problems must be heard. Young women who recognize the need for environmental change today are the future of the environmental movement.