Environmentalist Meaning

/ɪˌnvaɪrəˈnmɛntəlɪst/
B2

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nounOne 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.

nounOne who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group.

He is an environmentalist.
She is an environmentalist.
Mario is a communist and Luigi is an environmentalist.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The local ____ organized a protest against the new pipeline.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
As a dedicated ____, she spends her time campaigning for clean energy.

Etymology tree English environmental Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English environmentalist From environmental + -ist.

"The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast." — 2015 May 21, Eliott C. McLaughlin, “How does Santa Barbara match up with other U.S. oil spills?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2016:
"This tension is familiar in the lives of most environmentalists. Some own cars; some still eat meat." — 2016 April 5, Madeleine Somerville, “How I deal with the unbearable hypocrisy of being an environmentalist”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2022:
"The term greenwashing was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld in 1986, back when most consumers received their news from television, radio and print media – the same outlets that corporations regularly flooded with a wave of high-priced, slickly-produced commercials and print ads." — 2016 August 20, Bruce Watson, “The troubling evolution of corporate greenwashing”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2021:
"A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport. Then, in the face of opposition from environmentalists, came a realisation that similar road schemes across the world tend merely to encourage greater car use and therefore soon prove ineffective in solving the original problem." — 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:
"He [King Charles] is a committed environmentalist at a point when the government is full of climate change deniers." — 2022 September 12, Zoe Williams, “Why are people getting arrested in Britain for being republicans?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2023:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
The local ____ organized a protest against the new pipeline.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
As a dedicated ____, she spends her time campaigning for clean energy.

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