单词 | ecologism |
释义 | ecologismn. 1. Biology. The capacity for successful adaptation to changes in environmental conditions; (also) a character that can alter, or that has altered, as a result of such adaptation. rare (now disused). ΚΠ 1904 Bot. Gaz. 38 385 The presence within an organism of a capacity for an advantageous response to changed conditions is called an ecologism. 1961 Evolution 15 48/1 The entire pistil was elevated by a gynophore... This single ecologism may have brought about reorganization by means of selection. 2. A philosophy or ideology based on the application of ecological concepts and priorities to political and moral issues. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > other political theories or doctrines white supremacy1824 gradualism1835 reformism1838 restrictionism1840 mutualism1842 new politics1844 perpetualism1849 economism1850 progressivism1855 possibilism1883 radicalism1899 maximalism1909 radical feminism1912 Eurasianism1922 communalism1923 los von Rom1923 voluntarism1924 exceptionalism1929 third way1935 cultural Marxism1938 quislingism1940 identitarianism1943 libertarianism1948 one-worldism1948 renewalism1965 ecologism1969 Third Worldism1970 ecofeminism1980 communitarian1984 1969 W. L. Wallace Sociol. Theory 17/1 Ecologism's principal class of explanatory events is imposed on the social, rather than generated by the social, and operates via those characteristics of participants' environments that are primarily nonhuman. 1981 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 5 Dec. [He] suggests that neither socialism nor capitalism works, and wonders ‘what next?’ The answer is ecologism or ecological politics. 1989 Observer 16 Apr. 46 Ecologism, although a minority taste, has cut across the customary Left-Right political axis. 2004 J. Barry & A. Dobson in G. F. Gaus & C. Kukathas Handbk. Polit. Theory ii. xiv. 184 The best way of capturing this is to think of ecologism as expressing a political objective, which we might call ‘sustainability’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1904 |
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