Word: environmentalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday's announcement of an environmentalist commencement speaker comes on the heels of the recent formation of a University-wide Committee on Environmental Studies, signaling to some observers a new committment to these issues...
Skinner, an avid and now somewhat embarrassed environmentalist who did the indoor decorating job herself with a friend, says the mildly rancid smell of the paint got worse after it was applied during the Thanks-giving holidays...
...common perception is that the only people who oppose environmentalist laws are greedy industrialists and arrogant Darwinians convinced of Homo sapiens' innate superiority. In fact, the dissenters are more likely to be working-class Americans, like the loggers in the Northwest who are losing their jobs because virgin forests they cut are the habitat of the endangered spotted...
...addition to property rights, a cause that may not be dear to that largely liberal environmentalist groups, people who believe that biodiversity is worth the human cost should consider how it affects the common welfare...
...have become allies in a "wise-use movement" to fight what they see as the extremism of those who put wilderness protection and the rights of endangered animals before the welfare of humans. "There seems to be a coalescing of different economic interests to fight the green devils," observes environmentalist Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution...