Earthism

Quick meaning: Earthism is a noun meaning The belief that environmental concerns should be primary above all other considerations.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include earthist, environmentalist, ecologism, environmentalism, ecoanarchism, ecopolitics.

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