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Someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution
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environmentalist
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution [syn: conservationist ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to environmentalism. n. 1 (context medicine social sciences English) One who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group. 2 One who advocates for ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB criticize ▪ The document has been criticized by environmentalists for merely offering suggestions and not setting out proposals for action. ▪ The change has been sharply criticized by environmentalists . ▪ The reductions ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement , "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities". An environmentalist ...
Usage examples of environmentalist.
It includes scripture suggestions and reflections on Biblical passages, some of them written by social critic and environmentalist Bill McKibben.
Americans are a people, says environmentalist David Orr, who know the price of everything but the cost of nothing.
Other surveys show about one-third of Americans buy stuff because of ecological labeling, green advertising, or environmentalist endorsements.
He was claiming to be a Boston environmentalist named Daniel Winchester.
When it got there, my favorite environmentalist, Smirnoff, was going to blow it up.
As he studied the scene, he had to admit that the environmentalist was correct.
As the ambassador stared across the broken, empty plain, the environmentalist moved away from him, pointing at the ground as he did so.
Several more shots tore through the thick plastic of the runnel, showing the environmentalist in no uncertain terms what had started Hawkes moving.
Nordic playwright Henrik Ibsen laid out the basic environmentalist template in An Enemy of the People in 1882.
We get a kick out of the environmentalist who calls 911 to complain about an elk in the garden and could someone come out and shoot it?
In essence, according to her mother, Valerie had the wherewithal to bury the entire LeDeux clan and the bayou environmentalists along with them.
But in central Texas, the slightly more communistic area of the state, environmentalists have successfully filed a bunch of lawsuits, leaving the courts pondering how much property has to be set aside to maintain a habitat for two endangered species: the black-capped vireo, a pretty songbird, and the Barton Creek salamander, a critter only a herpetologist could love.
Okay, Golden State Power has had 82 its differences with environmentalists, and will probably have more.
Earlier, Goldman criticized some environmentalists who, he said, oppose everything.
Sometimes, actually, I do feel like having fun, pretending to be charming, putting on my suit with the toxic tennis shoes, regaling local environmentalists with war stories, describing the variety of crap they have in their tap water.