One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention.
This tension is familiar in the lives of most environmentalists. Some own cars; some still eat meat.
One who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group.
Of, or relating to environmentalism.
The environmentalist explanation would be that tropical environment retards or depresses culture through its physiological effect on the human organism.
From environmental + -ist.
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