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| has gloss | eng: Anti-environmentalism is a backlash against the environmental movement. Anti-environmentalists believe that earth is not as fragile as environmentalists maintain, citing its 5 billion year existence. Some also believe that environmentalism is born of humankinds exaggerated sense of importance, that environmentalism is an extremist viewpoint due accordant scrutiny, and/or that some environmentalist factions use pseudo-science and scare tactics in an attempt to force their philosophical/religious values and political agenda on others. In the words of the IUCN for example: "Fear can be a great motivator, and it is one that environmentalists have long cherished" and skepticism about the scientific objectivity of such claims can even be found in Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species: "Nevertheless, so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of... |
| lexicalization | eng: Anti-environmentalism |
| lexicalization | eng: Antienvironmentalism |
| instance of | e/List of political ideologies |
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