antienvironmentalist

A form of anti-environmentalist — Opposing environmentalism (political ideology seeking protection of the environment).

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adjective
  1. alternativeAlternative form of anti-environmentalist.

    The Christian coalition has increasingly adopted antienvironmentalist positions, reportedly asserting that "the hole in the ozone [is] an atheist ploy" and that global environmental threats have been invented by atheists to[…]

    2000, Thomas C. Shevory, Body/politics: Studies in Reproduction, Production, and (re)construction, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 131
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    This basic assumption logically leads to a critical examination of corporate, governmental, and generally antienvironmentalist risk assessments just as much as of environmentalist ones, as the theory insists on “the inherently cultural[…]

    2008 October 16, Ursula K Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136
nounantienvironmentalist (plural antienvironmentalists)

plural antienvironmentalists

  1. alternativeAlternative form of anti-environmentalist.

    The principal objective of the antienvironmentalist is to get the environmentalist "off his back." He opposes any program for environmental improvement that significantly affects his behavior or for which he must bear part of the [cost].

    1974, Russell Lincoln Ackoff, Redesigning the Future: a Systems Approach to Societal Problems, Wiley-Interscience
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APA

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Chicago

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