Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings. While environmentalism focuses on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism. Ecologism is a term more commonly used in continental European languages, while environmentalism is more commonly used in English, but the words have slightly different connotations. Planet of the Year, representing the growing environmental movement as well as several natural and ecological disasters that struck in 1988: among them were the North American drought, "syringe tide", Bangladeshi cyclone and an earthquake in Armenia, as well as ozone depletion, global warming, radioactive contamination and deforestation. Wiki link