environmentalist
Of, or relating to environmentalism.
Adjective
- Of, or relating to environmentalism.
- The environmentalist explanation would be that tropical environment retards or depresses culture through its physiological effect on the human organism. - 1939, Alfred L. Kroeber, Cultural and Natural Areas of Native...
Origin
Etymology tree English environmental Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English environmentalist From environmental + -ist.
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- One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention.
- The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast. - 2015 May 21,...
- This tension is familiar in the lives of most environmentalists. Some own cars; some still eat meat. - 2016 April 5, Madeleine Somerville, “How I deal with the unbearable hypocrisy of being an environmentalist”, in The...
- The term greenwashing was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld in 1986, back when most consumers received their news from television, radio and print media – the same outlets that corporations regularly flooded...
- One who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group.
- As we remarked once before, there are two extreme views with respect to life, one attributing everything to the environment, the other to inherent abilities. If, for example, an unusual number of distinguished men are...
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environmental activist ecologist eco-warrior greenie tree hugger