Its source can be traced back to the mid-1980s when wave after wave of independent environmental protests took place, such as opposition to Dupont in Lukang and to the fifth naphtha cracker in Changhua, and a long series of incidents all over the island in which people formed blockades around pollution-emitting factories to demand compensation.
它的源頭，可以追溯到民國七十年代中期的一波波環保自力抗爭﹘﹘鹿港的反杜邦、彰化的反「五輕」，及各地頻頻發生的圍堵汙染廠商事件等。