Meaning of earthism | Babel Free

Definitions

The belief that environmental concerns should be primary above all other considerations.

uncountable

Examples

“The chief problem with earthism is that it sometimes distracts attention from commitment to justice for the poor and oppressed.”

“This paper seeks to foster the trend to earthism or the internalization of currently externalized social and environmental costs, such as immiseration, extinctions and climate change.”

“While common agendas and strategies certainly bind these two resistance groups together, the next two chapters develop two slightly divergent themes—earthism and postcolonialism— that dominate the work of globalization resistance and transformation.”

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