environmentalism
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environmentalism (countable and uncountable, plural environmentalisms)
- (medicine, social sciences) A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor in the development of an individual or group.
- 1939, Alfred L. Kroeber, “Objectives”, in Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America, published 1963, page 1:
- The first is that the present work in no sense represents a relapse toward the old environmentalism which believed it could find the causes of culture in environment.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:environmentalism.
- (politics) A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
- 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 196:
- The need for environmentalisms engaged with the commons rather than relegated to the individual consumer or tied to the middle-class principles of private property.
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ideology seeking to prevent the degradation of environment
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