The article published by the International Journal of Peace Studies, "Knowledge and Power in Global Environmental Activism", authored by Charlotte Epstein, focuses on the complex relationship between science and activism and the key idea that both science and activism mutually reinforce the other, enabling the creation of global environmental policies. Epstein discusses how environmental activists use science as evidence to prove to the states that policies must be instilled to obstruct environmental destruction, while the scientific discoveries are acted on only after the ideas are taken up and publicized by activist campaigns. Epstein's article traces the root of the relationship between activism and science to the first success of environmental