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environmentalist:

Vandana Shiva, environmentalist, India

[also 'conservationist']

a person who tries to keep (save) and to educate others to save the natural environment on the earth from being spoiled by people releasing pollutants into the environment

Al Gore, Jr., former vice president & noted environmentalist, USA

(natural environment = the water, air, land and the atmosphere we have on the earth, which, in their pure state, are very important for us to live healthy lives)

Christina Crawford, environmentalist of the other kind (human behaviour)

a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, esp. in moral and intellectual behaviour, are chiefly determined by environmental factors, such as surroundings that one lives in, upbringing — the financial status, parents’ education and occupation, or experiences they have in their routine or normal lives (here the word ‘environmental’ has nothing do with ‘air’, ‘water’ and ‘land’ on the earth) {The opposite word in meaning to this word, in this context, is “heredity”, and the person who believes this theory is called a “hereditarian”.}

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