A person who discounts or ignores societal or environmental problems because they believe that intelligence and technological prowess make humanity exempt from the natural processes that govern other species.
Also, a person who defers accountability to others.
Also, a person who defers accountability to others.
Exemptionalist: The earth, environment, and all life are disposable in the wake of humanity. Population growth? Good for the economy. Species going extinct? Not to worry. That is nature's way. Think of humankind as only the latest in a long line of exterminating agents in geological time. Besides, if we have to destroy a rainforest, we are smart enough to place another one somewhere else. If we have to witness the extinction of a species, we are smart enough to create breeding programs. Resources? The planet has more than enough resources to last indefinitely. It always has and it always will. The fact that industrialization is destroying environments faster than anything humanity has ever seen doesn't change this fact. Don't worry. Be happy!
Environmentalist: The fate of mankind is closely knit to the well-being of biodiversity and the environment. Food is becoming more and more scarce and will worsen when the melting ice caps and rising ocean levels decrease arable land. We exhaust resources at a much faster rate than they can be replenished. We cause the extinction of species faster than they can be created. Destruction or degradation of biodiversity is irreplaceable because there is so much intricacy that we still don’t know. Millions of plants and animals die with deforestation that, unknowingly, may have been life-saving for humanity. Humanity must work to save the planet, and in doing so we save ourselves.
Environmentalist: The fate of mankind is closely knit to the well-being of biodiversity and the environment. Food is becoming more and more scarce and will worsen when the melting ice caps and rising ocean levels decrease arable land. We exhaust resources at a much faster rate than they can be replenished. We cause the extinction of species faster than they can be created. Destruction or degradation of biodiversity is irreplaceable because there is so much intricacy that we still don’t know. Millions of plants and animals die with deforestation that, unknowingly, may have been life-saving for humanity. Humanity must work to save the planet, and in doing so we save ourselves.
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Adlibing or performing something unprepared. Usually something an under-achiever does in school when it comes to speech's, like how I used to be.
A better word to use than adlib because it is worth a million dollars if you can say it and not sound as if you just added the word in your speech to sound smarter.
A word that if Bush uttered it, he would die. His brain would collapse from the sheer athleticism of the word itself and the amount of syllables in it. There are to many valiant movements of the mouth and mandible bone to utter this golden fragment of the English language.
Also something people do when they think of a word to put on this site and quickly think of a definition for it so they can come back two days later, read it, and smile...like me.
Here is a word that you'll have fun butchering and making a slang term out of. Lets start with the 'newly invented term by me at this very moment' "Xtemp" which will be pronounced 'S'temp'
This definition will not get any thumbs up because, I ask the question, "How the hell is somebody going to know about this word?" "It's not even slang."
:) Smile (:
A better word to use than adlib because it is worth a million dollars if you can say it and not sound as if you just added the word in your speech to sound smarter.
A word that if Bush uttered it, he would die. His brain would collapse from the sheer athleticism of the word itself and the amount of syllables in it. There are to many valiant movements of the mouth and mandible bone to utter this golden fragment of the English language.
Also something people do when they think of a word to put on this site and quickly think of a definition for it so they can come back two days later, read it, and smile...like me.
Here is a word that you'll have fun butchering and making a slang term out of. Lets start with the 'newly invented term by me at this very moment' "Xtemp" which will be pronounced 'S'temp'
This definition will not get any thumbs up because, I ask the question, "How the hell is somebody going to know about this word?" "It's not even slang."
:) Smile (:
It is so inexplicably common in high school of how one goes unpreprepared and performs a speech extemporaneously in front of an audience and fails to draw attention to themselves effectively. For future reference it is better to prepare and if done correctly you shall recieve a higher appraisal. That is, of course, if delivering speech's is appealing to you.
George Bush: "Extemparsieninininininin"
George Bush: "Extemparsieninininininin"
by Jacob The Red August 22, 2006
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2. Exempt person or thing: Somebody who or something that is exempt, e.g. income that is not taxed.
2. Exempt person or thing: Somebody who or something that is exempt, e.g. income that is not taxed.
by Jafje April 10, 2007
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Get the shawshank exemption mug.The only category of Speech where it is appropriate to read out of a book. Usually others define it as a boring category, but they are wrong. You are given the chance to draw out of envelope, sneak a cutting back in and draw another, then practice for a half an hour before speaking to an old lady or hot college guy in a storage room or closet. Comparable to Storytelling, but not as loud, scary, or goofy.
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