environmentalistn.adj.

1903 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 11 319 An extreme environmentalist, he seeks his explanation nevertheless not so much in the habitat where the given type now exists.

1925 F. Thomas Environmental Basis of Society xi. 288 The environmentalist holds, for example, that the snow house of the Eskimo is determined by the surrounding Arctic environment.

1959 Archit. Rev. 125 304/2 The people are the Environmentalists... Their means of expression are the relationships between buildings and between spaces, and the element in which they work is time.

2003 Prospect Sept. 34/2 The progressive environmentalists, who emphasise nurture, are as determinist as the reactionary hereditarians, who emphasise nature.

1966 M. M. Gaffney in K. E. Boulding et al. Environmental Quality in Growing Econ. iv. 97 The economist who would like to rationalize the oil industry needs to join forces with the environmentalist who would like to preserve the landscape.

1970 Nature 15 Aug. 655/2 The project to build a supersonic transport has run into renewed complaints from the environmentalists.

1989 T. C. Boyle If River was Whiskey 119 Tootle had been a cover girl; a macrobiot;..and,..an environmentalist.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Jan. b25 (caption) Ed Begley Jr., a longtime environmentalist, with a solar oven.

1921 A. Ireland Democracy & Human Equation v. 168 I will now give a brief account of the environmentalist view of the problem.

1952 W. J. H. Sprott Social Psychol. ii. viii. 147 Blackburn who champions the environmentalist position shows that..it is only among the poorer classes that the negative correlation is significant.

1988 B. Cooper Alexander Kennedy Isbister ii. viii. 220 Environmentalist criminology..did not deal with crime by punishing it but grappled with the endless possibilities of the causes of crime.

1995 Lang. in Society 24 596 A balance between innatist and environmentalist explanations.

1968 B. Harris in B. J. Frieden & W. W. Nash Shaping Urban Future vii. 192 The conservationist and environmentalist movement rests on two quite distinct bases.

1977 Time 18 Apr. 53/1 Environmentalist and anti-nuke organizations applauded the moves.

1990 Christianity Today 5 Feb. 32/2 Some of those in R2 are even known for their ‘greenish’ (environmentalist) and ‘pinkish’ (socialist) politics.

2001 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 11 Dec. a1/3 A tree harvest at the site of an environmentalist tree-sit in Yellowwood State Forest was canceled Monday.

1929 A. Gesell in C. Murchison et al. Found. Exper. Psychol. xvi. 657 The extreme versions of environmentalistic and conditioning theories suffer because they explain too much.

1962 H. J. Eysenck Know your own I.Q. 36 This method of investigation..favours the hereditary rather than the environmentalistic point of view.

2000 M. Bay White Image in Black Mind 201 Turn-of-the-century black intellectuals whose racial thought had always been more environmentalistic than that of their white contemporaries.