Associations to the word «Environmentalism»

Wiktionary

ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. (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.
ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.

Dictionary definition

ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. The philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth.
ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. The activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope