Eco-imperialist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Eco-imperialist is an adjective meaning Characteristic of or pertaining to eco-imperialism.
Meaning
Characteristic of or pertaining to eco-imperialism.
More Meanings
- A person or country that engages in eco-imperialism.
Example Sentences
International environmental activists are condemned as racist "eco-imperialists" and domestic activists are Malaysia's "Number 1 traitors."
This eco-imperialist logic was expounded by Larry Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, in his 1991 memo to a senior World Bank official.
Like the European imperialists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Driessen claims, today's eco-imperialists keep developing countries destitute for the benefit of the developed world.
On the one hand, the types of technical regulations discussed above are not eco-imperialist, since they specify the nature of the product itself - it must be packaged a certain way, or must be recyclable - rather than how the product is produced.
Word Forms
- eco-imperialists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ecoimperialist, neoimperial, ecocapitalist, ecosocialist, proimperialist, blue-green.
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