earthist

plural earthists

1. A proponent of earthism.

   Its time the 'earthists' grew up and faced reality.

   2007 September 14, Bonzo, “Poppycock Coppock.”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet)

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   Enormous amounts of background work had been done, much of it by earthists, who presented well-reasoned proposals to implement some of their agenda.

   1994, John B. Cobb, Sustaining the Common Good

   Polls taken in the late 1990s indicate that 40 million United States citizens, up from roughly 10 million in the 1970s, might be called "earthists."

   2000, William Kittredge, The nature of generosity, page 226

2. literatureAn advocate for people who live on earth, as opposed to those on other planets.

   We cannot protect the planet Mars against our enemies from the Earth if we permit these Earthists to flourish in our midst.

   1970 -, William Whyte Watt, An American rhetoric, page 282

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   He moved forward, determinedly trampling on people's feet. "Make way for an earthist," he called out in a polite but ringing tone.

   1967, Maggi Lidchi, Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, Earthman, page 10

3. in compoundsOne who believes the earth has a specific property or history.

   'Young earthists' will complain I have skimped their case.

   1987, Michael Pitman, Adam and evolution: a scientific critique of neo-Darwinism, →ISBN, page 238

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   (It is as if Geography departments had been taken over by flat earthists, Biology by disciples of Lombroso, or Astronomy departments by the persecutors of Galileo).

   1996, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, Surviving the PC University: The Best of Heterodoxy, →ISBN, page 16

   If a way could be found of detecting the enemy vessels at a great distance, the hollow-earthists argued, it would enable the German navy to take action at once.

   2010, Michael FitzGerald, Hitler's Occult War, page 77

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1. Pertaining to earthism.

   People with earthist sentiments are getting wind into their sails worldwide; they are likely to command enormous political power in coming decades — without, one hopes, evolving into bureaucracies.

   2000, William Kittredge, The nature of generosity, page 226

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   This is why theologian John Cobb, in what he calls the Earthist challenge, says somewhat startlingly: Earth is a far more inclusive and suitable object of devotion than Christianity, a nation, or economic growth...

   2000, Norman C. Habel, Shirley Wurst, Earth Story in Genesis, →ISBN, page 11

   Proponents of an earthist perspective seek to reorient globalization away from individual profit-driven values toward a different set of moral norms by which supposed scientific and technological advances might be judged.

   2006, Pamela Brubaker, Rebecca Todd Peters, Laura A. Stivers, Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World, →ISBN