Environmentalism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Environmentalism is a noun meaning (politics) A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
Meaning
(politics) A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
More Meanings
- (medicine, social sciences) A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor in the development of an individual or group.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- environmentalisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ecology, environmentology, environtology, mesology, ecopsychology, ethnoecology.
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