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I have been using "environidiot" to relate to folks that use extreme measure to protect our environment without any
real knowledge on their part.
I have used it to letter to congress and newspaper editorial
pages without any bad feed back.
What do you folks think?
Thank you,
TomC
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good word, though I would use it for those who use, (read: destroy) the environment for their own gain, without care for the ramifications of that destruction. (maybe our politics are showing?  ) welcome to the board, Tom!
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Hi Tom, Well, following on from a recent discussion about people who talk beyond their level of knowledge - http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=83749- I think your word should be something like environultracrepidarian. But it has to be said that environidiot rolls off the tongue better. Eta's agent of destruction could be distinguished by being called an environdetrimentalist. I quite like the internal rhyme of environmoron as yet another alternative... There's probably quite a bit of scope for types of idiot. You could have a vidiot, someone who always believes what they see on TV, for instance. 
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yes, i think the word could be a double edged sword.. who is the environidiot?
those who believe in clear cutting forests? (clearing 1000 year old trees, and claiming the woods will return? which i suppose is true if i am willing to wait a 1000 years, and maybe not true, since in the meanwhile, many of the animal and plants that relied on the resourses of the forest have long since died off, since there natural place to live had been destroyed) or
Tree huggers who destroy family business by putting an end to local logging, since the logging industry want to destroy the last few stand of 1000 year old forest (those small companies, the local sawmill, and other small local businesses that are dependent on the logging industry, aren't really going to be saved, thy are just going to last a few more years, till all the local lumber has been harvested, and even it it takes 20 years, the new forests (20 year old) forest aren't going to be what keeps them open, since the logger will have moved onto another community, that still has some 1000 year old forest left.
which is the idiot? I personally am of the tree hugger clan, and see the good and bad.. i support keeping a natural areas wild-- such as nearby, where there is a beautiful salt water marsh, on Long island north shore.. it is home to osprey and mallard, cormorants, egrets, raccoons, oppossum and a host of other wild life..
it is also the place where west nile virus got a start and stronghold in US (the first cases were all in the Bayside area of Eastern Queens, all less than a mile from the bay. West nile destroyed many local birds before becoming a human problem-- the water birds seem to resist the disease, but we have lost 90% of the crow/raven population)
so should we "improve" the last salt water marsh left on Long Islands North shore? it could be argueed it would help in the fight against West Nile. but this is one of the few places left on Long Island that still has a population of horse shoe crabs nesting..(an almost prehistoric creature, unchanges since before the last ice age.)
I happen to be all in favor of the salt water mash. (i also happen to be a little less wealthy, and don't live close enough to it to claim "water" views..and as a result, don't live close enough to it to suffer as much from mosquitos.. )
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There are indeed fanatics about the environment. But the ones who put spikes into trees
hoping to injure loggers as well as destroy chainsaws are more vicious than idiotic.
The people who want to save mosquito breeding swamps that might become sources
of malaria are envonidiots.
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how about environopolist? someone who wants to pave over all wild areas to put up more shopping malls and industries...
Bill: you're right about the spikes; a stupid way to make a point.
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that's great fun!
I especially like the Plan™...
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Who's this environopolist? Joni Mitchell?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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