Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Advocacy for or work toward protecting the natural environment from destruction or pollution.
- noun The theory that environment rather than heredity is the primary influence on intellectual growth and cultural development.
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- noun A
political andsocial ideology that seeks to prevent theenvironment from degradation byhuman activity .
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- noun the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth
- noun the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction
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Ironically, this win-win environmentalism is being opposed by the Bush administration.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Free Market Environmentalism 2005
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Ironically, this win-win environmentalism is being opposed by the Bush administration.
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Rampant 'environmentalism' is a first world import that Mexico should actively discourage.
Greenpeace In Mexico 2005
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Rampant 'environmentalism' is a first world import that Mexico should actively discourage.
Greenpeace In Mexico 2005
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Rampant 'environmentalism' is a first world import that Mexico should actively discourage.
Greenpeace In Mexico 2005
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Rampant 'environmentalism' is a first world import that Mexico should actively discourage.
Greenpeace In Mexico 2005
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Rampant 'environmentalism' is a first world import that Mexico should actively discourage.
Greenpeace In Mexico 2005
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Rampant 'environmentalism' is a first world import that Mexico should actively discourage.
Greenpeace In Mexico 2005
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Rampant 'environmentalism' is a first world import that Mexico should actively discourage.
Greenpeace In Mexico 2005
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Once again, environmentalism is thinly veiled socialist propaganda.
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