Associations to the word «Environmentalism»

Wiktionary

ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. (medicine) (social sciences) A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor in the development of an individual or group.
ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.

Dictionary definition

ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. The philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth.
ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. The activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky