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- noun A movement that supports
conservation , especially that ofnatural resources
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Examples
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Real savings is in conservationism, which liberal progressive socialists have reclaimed from conservatives because lets face it, times change.
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The difference was that the first test took "conservationism" as a conservative value.
Conservation and Conservatism Doctor Science 2007
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Climate change challenges one of the fundamental notions of conservationism: that Nature is largely pristine and unchanging and should be "protected" from outside and "unnatural" intrusion.
Nathaniel Loewentheil: Planet in Sight Series: Shifting From Sacrificial Conservation Nathaniel Loewentheil 2011
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Climate change challenges one of the fundamental notions of conservationism: that Nature is largely pristine and unchanging and should be "protected" from outside and "unnatural" intrusion.
Nathaniel Loewentheil: Planet in Sight Series: Shifting From Sacrificial Conservation Nathaniel Loewentheil 2011
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So prescriptivism of some sort could be thought of as analogous to conservationism ....
Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar 2009
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We can just give up on the lie that conservatives are fiscal conservatives, which only leads to social conservationism being left.
Think Progress » CBO estimates that stimulus package has employed up to 2.1 million workers. 2010
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Particularly when the party elected partly on a platform of “fiscal conservationism” apparently does no better at reigning in the debt than their opponents, the picture ismurky.
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So prescriptivism of some sort could be thought of as analogous to conservationism ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar 2009
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"We think there's a natural parallel between conservationism and environmentalism," says Cindy Ortega, senior vice president of Energy and Environmental Services at MGM Resorts.
Eco-Vegas 2010
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Far left wing liberal agenda could very well take away all of your hunting and fishing rights in the name of environmentalism rather than conservationism.
Did Flyfishing Influence Your Vote? Tim Romano 2008
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