earthism

English

Etymology

From earth ‎ -ism, coined by John B. Cobb in the 1990s as a contrast to economism.

Noun

earthism (uncountable)

1. The belief that environmental concerns should be primary above all other considerations.
   • 1997, John B. Cobb, Reclaiming the Church, →ISBN, page 45:

     The chief problem with earthism is that it sometimes distracts attention from commitment to justice for the poor and oppressed.

   • 2000, Robert Goodland, Social and Environmental Assessment to Promote Sustainability:

     This paper seeks to foster the trend to earthism or the internalization of currently externalized social and environmental costs, such as immiseration, extinctions and climate change.

   • 2006, Rebecca Todd Peters, In Search of the Good Life: The Ethics of Globalization, →ISBN, page 103:

     While common agendas and strategies certainly bind these two resistance groups together, the next two chapters develop two slightly divergent themes—earthism and postcolonialism— that dominate the work of globalization resistance and transformation.

Related terms

• flat-earthism

Anagrams

• Hiemstra, hetarism, marshite