Meaning of environmentalism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor in the development of an individual or group.
   countable, uncountable
2. A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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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