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Environmentalist
* Many environmentalists are also keen supporters of biotechnology
  - scientists, albeit often passionately prejudiced ones
  - say that global warming is already causing severe and destructive weather
  - work to save remote places from mining, logging or other forms of intrusions
* Most environmentalists believe that the world is already dangerously overcrowded.
* Some environmentalists argue that much of the damage of invasive plants is economic
  - blame global warming
  - care for little except advancing their false religion
  - even believe that humanity cancer
  - have the attitude that preservation is better than conservation
  - object to sending people and machines into already disturbed ecosystems
  - think that it is possible to climb to the top and then change development
* agree that reforesting can have numerous benefits for the environment
  - the key to saving our planet lies with the generations to come
* are a privileged minority.
* are also against energy generated by nuclear plants
  - fiercely opposed to mining
  - concerned about the levels of chemicals in many rivers, lakes and oceans
  - critical of Antarctic whaling
  - elitists
  - especially active lobbyists
  - flakes
  - ignorant, power-hungry elitists who want to destroy an American way of life
  - opposed to fish farms because they pollute and spread disease
  - reformers
  - skeptical about the safety and effectiveness of radioactive cobalt treatment
  - up in arms, and some even in trees or tractors
  - usually peripheralists because they emphasize the sensory and motor processes
* believe curbing emissions key to reducing global warming
  - newer cars reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
  - that suburban sprawl threatens wildlife in two key ways
* call it the last great wilderness on earth.
* charge that many government rules actually discourage recycling.
* claim that modified plants are a potential hazard.
* concern themselves with resources that have served the painter for centuries.
* contend that greenhouse gases are warming the planet, causing sea levels to rise
  - livestock grazing is harmful to the spikedace and loach minnow
* contribute to environmental lobbies and funds to save endangered species.
* despise big-box stores because of the polluting automobile society they require.
* encourage the growth of sand dunes.
* enhance awareness of environmental work and conservation.
* essentially practice pagan tree worship.
* estimate that half of the Everglades ecosystem has already disappeared.
* favor building mass transit such as subways, light rail, and expanded bus routes.
* fear the destruction of large tracts of virgin forest
  - possibility of major oil spills or a catastrophic explosion
* find their job profile to be increasing every day.
* firmly believe that the coyotes are necessary to preserve the balance of nature.
* focus on recycling, envi-ronmental action, and fundraising activities.
* generally advocate a more ecological and wholistic vision of the world
  - oppose beach replenishment
* hate people.
* have concerns about how to sustain it and keep it free from contamination
  - growth by the throat
  - stickers with statements about saving the earth or endangered species
* insist the ash contains toxic heavy metals.
* often declare their philosophy openly
  - focus on possible ecological impacts from the use of biotechnology
  - look to primal peoples as models of proper human interaction with nature
  - talk about threats to the earth from pollution and overpopulation
  - use annual statistics to measure changes in the planet's health
* oppose production and use of natural resources
  - railroading Western coal
* play an important role as society s watchdogs.
* point to floods as evidence of global warming
  - hemp paper as a substitute for forest-consuming paper
* prefer the certainty of quantity over the certainty of cost.
* prey on people with rhetoric that Earth is on the brink of disaster.
* provide information on ridding indoor and outdoor areas of vectors.
* raise awareness of the problems facing America's rivers.
* say forest roads add to erosion, destroy habitat and affect animal migration
  - fragile ecosystems are being hurt
  - hundreds of thousands of trees have been chopped down
  - insurers share their concern about climate change
  - low sulphur fuels do nothing to combat climate change issues
  - many of the frogs live on private property
  - more sea turtles are killed in Bali than any other place in the world
  - reducing streamflows can hurt aquatic life
* say that the amount of carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere needs to be reduced
  - wastes trees and pollutes the atmosphere
* say the open lagoons used to store hog waste pollute groundwater and rivers
  - timber industry has destroyed the national forests
  - there is no ecologically acceptable method of radioactive waste disposal
  - trains pollute less than cars or planes
  - twenty different types of mammals have become extinct
  - when it runs off into the water, it brings excessive levels of nitrogen
* see increasing fossil fuel use to power electric plants as a health risk
  - the world as full of problems which only government can solve
* share a common goal of trying to protect the environment.
* tend to be of a different mind
  - predominantly leftist in ideology
* testify that several species have gone extinct while awaiting protection.
* think so and so do feminists
  - that being frugal is good
* use the word conservation as a billy club in lawsuits.
* warn that any increase of cancer-causing chemicals in drinking water concern
  - development threat to biodiversity
  - it threat to biodiversity
  - six turtle species are in severe decline from over-exploitation
* worry that trade competition and rules harm the environment.
+ Environmentalism: Environment :: Nature :: Green politics
  * Environmentalists often talk about threats to the earth from pollution and overpopulation. Environmentalism is both personal and political. In their own lives, environmentalists do things that are better for the earth, such as recycling, using natural products, and supporting businesses that try not to harm the environment. Politically, they support laws that help the environment, like laws against pollution.
+ Frugality, Philosophy: Philosophy :: Economics :: Virtues
  * Environmentalists think that being frugal is good. They think because ancient humans did not need many things and were able to get happiness from nature it is more natural to be frugal than to agree with the customs of modern living.