environmentalism

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the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction

the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth

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Adherents of radical environmentalism and ecological anarchism are involved in direct action campaigns to protect the environment. Source: Internet

And one of the most fundamental premises of environmentalism, often overlooked, is the delusion that higher density urban areas is necessary to protect the planet. Source: Internet

Authored by the same John Tierney who recently joined after more than two decades as a reporter and columnist with the it exposes how misguided environmentalism and government subsidies corrupted the waste management industry. Source: Internet

Counterculture green: the Whole earth catalog and American environmentalism. Source: Internet

Cronon writes "wilderness serves as the unexamined foundation on which so many of the quasi-religious values of modern environmentalism rest." Source: Internet

; Environmentalism as Religion This was not the first discussion of environmentalism as a religion, but it caught on and was widely quoted. Source: Internet

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