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environmentalist en · ADJ
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English environmental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
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.
Meanings
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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 North America, published 1963, page 69:
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Relateds
preservationist · conservationist · ecologist
environmentalist en · NOUN
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English environmental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
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.
Meanings
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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.
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 Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2022: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 with a wave of high-priced, slickly-produced commercials and print ads.
2016 August 20, Bruce Watson, “The troubling evolution of corporate greenwashing”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2021:He [King Charles] is a committed environmentalist at a point when the government is full of climate change deniers.
2022 September 12, Zoe Williams, “Why are people getting arrested in Britain for being republicans?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2023: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, Eliott C. McLaughlin, “How does Santa Barbara match up with other U.S. oil spills?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2016:A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport. Then, in the face of opposition from environmentalists, came a realisation that similar road schemes across the world tend merely to encourage greater car use and therefore soon prove ineffective in solving the original problem.
2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:
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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 born and reared in the same locality, the environmentalists assert that the causes for their appearance were entirely external and that had their parents changed habitats with those residing elsewhere the result would have been the same, except that the family names of these eminent men would have been different.
1926, Clark Wissler, The Relation of Nature to Man in Aboriginal America, published 1971, pages 211–212:
Forms
Deriveds
pseudoenvironmentalist · anti-environmentalist · enviro
Hyponyms
ecocapitalist · ecosocialist
Relateds
environmentalism · environmental · enviro- · environment
Synonyms
eco-warrior (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · greenie (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · environmental activist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · ecologist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · tree hugger (one who advocates for the protection of the environment)
Translations (42)
pl ekolog (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · id aktivis lingkungan hidup (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · cs ekologista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · it ecologista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · cmn 環境保護主義者 /环境保护主义者 (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · nl ecologist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · gd neach-àrainneachd (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · pl zielony (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · de Umweltschützer (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · yue 環保主義者 /环保主义者 (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · es verde (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · fi luonnonsuojelija (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · es ecologista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · nl milieuactiviste (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · hy բնապահպան (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · pt ambientalista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · cmn 環境論者 /环境论者 (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · cs environmentalista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · ml പരിസ്ഥിതി പ്രവർത്തകൻ (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · ca ecologista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · tr çevreci (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · es ambientalista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · pt ecologista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · de Umweltschützerin (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · cmn 環保人士 /环保人士 (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · mk природозаштитник (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · gl ecoloxista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · nl milieuactivist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · nrf envithonnementaliste (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · cmn 環境保護論者 /环境保护论者 (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · ro ecologistă (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · ru зелёный (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · ja 環境保護主義者 (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · fi ympäristönsuojelija (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · ro ecologist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · id environmentalis (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · hu környezetvédő (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · is náttúruverndarsinni (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · ru эко́лог (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · it ambientalista (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · fr environnementaliste (one who advocates for the protection of the environment) · fr écologiste (one who advocates for the protection of the environment)