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Pictures of the tennis players playing without a ball, the closing scenes of Antonioni’s famous film, Blow Up, occur to me when I want to analyze the environmental movements of the 1980s. The people in the tennis court of the film do not need a ball, as only the imitation of the game is important and the ball would only disturb it and make it serious. The natural environment and the endangered inhabitants were not really present in the protective “game” of state socialism either. In the 1970s popular movements of environmental origin arose only occasionally in various locations of Hungary. According to the sociological research of the period, even these movements did not occur for ecological and health considerations, but for other reasons (Szirmai & Lehoczki, 1988). Those who were always on the scene, such as the environmental protection authorities, the ministry, the councils, and even the large enterprises, did something for ecological issues only apparently, occasionally, and indirectly.
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Szirmai, V. (1993). The Structural Mechanisms of the Organization of Ecological — Social Movements in Hungary. In: Vari, A., Tamas, P. (eds) Environment and Democratic Transition. Technology, Risk, and Society, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8120-2_7
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