0 a person who is interested in or studies the environment and who tries to protect it from being damaged by human activities --
1 a person who has a specially strong interest in or knowledge of the natural environment, and who wants to preserve it and prevent damage to it: --
2 a person who studies the environment or believes that it must be protected from damage by human activities: --
The author is not a dogmatic 'no-change-at-all' environmentalist or a 'doom and gloom, degradation everywhere' ambassador.
Now humbler and more self-critical, environmentalists are learning from these past lessons.
Only now, in year 3, do the environmentalists join the bandwagon (almost no green scare has been started by greens).
But at the moment such optimists are distinctly unwelcome among environmentalists.
This is perhaps similar to our example of a radical environmentalist who prefers wilderness preservation to desecration to compromise development.
Unlike the electoral arena, environmentalists did not need a majority of consumers to be on their side in order to be effective.
Possible adverse repercussions of unrestrained population growth in the developing countries on planetary resources have agitated environmentalists.
Therefore, these acts become "ethical acts," like those of movements that enjoy global presence, such as the environmentalist and the antiglobalization movements (p. 160).
