Refers to environmentalism forced upon a group, company, or person or persons with the consequence of severe financial hardship in the event of non-compliance.
First coined by novelist Eric Shawn in his thriller The Power.
First coined by novelist Eric Shawn in his thriller The Power.
Example: California's (failed) laws governing the automotive industry requiring that a specified percentage of all cars on the road be zero-emission vehicles by a certain date. That is gunpoint environmentalism.
Example sentence: Congress' new bills providing grants only to farmers engaged in so-called "green" agricultural practices amount to gunpoint environmentalism as landowners scramble to comply.
Example sentence: Congress' new bills providing grants only to farmers engaged in so-called "green" agricultural practices amount to gunpoint environmentalism as landowners scramble to comply.
by S. Levine March 30, 2008
Get the gunpoint environmentalismmug. An ass backwards idea that minorities are forced to live by toxic waste and pollutants when in reality they live there because African Americans tend to be low income, and if you're breathing in cancer chances are house prices are an absolute steal.
Alt girl with bright green hair: "Hey do you want to come to Hinsdale with me to protest environmental racism?"
Normal person: "No. What the fuck does that even mean?"
Alt girl with bright green hair: "You're literally a nazi!"
Normal person: "No. What the fuck does that even mean?"
Alt girl with bright green hair: "You're literally a nazi!"
by anonymous September 14, 2020
Get the Environmental Racismmug. A short person in a tall persons man made environment. Seatbelts, counter-tops, chairs, table heights, ect.
Similar to vertically challenged but without giving power to the self serving actions of the tall.
Similar to vertically challenged but without giving power to the self serving actions of the tall.
A pigmy taken from the jungle and placed in a New York landscape.
The change is environmental not vertical.
The change is environmental not vertical.
by Jill June 6, 2004
Get the environmentally challengedmug. Environmental racism is a type of discrimination where people of low-income or minority communities are forced to live in close proximity of environmentally hazardous or degraded environments, such as toxic waste, pollution and urban decay.
Cases of environmental racism have been documented around the world, with one of the first high-profile cases occurring in the 1980s in Warren County, North Carolina, when a hazardous waste landfill was constructed in the small, predominately African-American community.
by kathym November 30, 2016
Get the environmental racismmug. by Chris Davis March 25, 2004
Get the Environmental Protectionmug. by Rowan Marie July 19, 2017
Get the Environmental Ballsmug. Redneck , lives in the woods , loves the outdoors
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City slicker , a liberal homo , lives in the city , chops down all of the trees to build cities , loves the city , hates the trees , calls anyone not from the city a "redneck" , including suburbanites.
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see blue states
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City slicker , a liberal homo , lives in the city , chops down all of the trees to build cities , loves the city , hates the trees , calls anyone not from the city a "redneck" , including suburbanites.
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see blue states
Environmentalism lesson over.
by eat shit liberal June 28, 2006
Get the Environmentalism lessonmug.