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eco-warrior en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈiː.kəʊ ˌwɒ.ɹi.əɹ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) Latin oeco- French éco- English eco- English warrior English eco-warrior From eco- + warrior.

Meanings

1. An environmentalist who places a greater emphasis upon taking practical action, rather than upon theoretical considerations, in order to advance an ecological ideology.
   • The time has come, eco-warriors say, for the underground in this war to rise, to fight back against the onslaught of technomania sweeping every corner of the world from Silicon Valley to the Amazon River Valley, […] 2016 [1990], Rik Scarce, Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement, updated edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
   • Green can be a double-edged sword. Does it make sense for an eco-warrior to arrive at (say) the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in his Tesla electric car, get out in his low-carbon vegan trainers, and then step into a 19th century means of transport that is staggeringly inefficient and pretty darn polluting? 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 54:
   • Up to 300 squatters – eco-warriors to some, green jihadis to others – now live in the ZAD: […] 2017 December 28, Kim Willsher, “End of la ZAD? France’s ‘utopian’ anti-airport community faces bitter last stand”, in The Guardian:

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