"Planetarians", "decarbonists", "sustainablists", "transitionalists", "green patriots" ... David Roberts at Grist wants a new name to describe a significant group of people who support clean energy and action on climate change, but don't want to be called environmentalists.
As he sees it,
there are plenty of people who understand climate change and support clean energy but do not share the rest of the ideological and sociocultural commitments that define environmentalism as historically understood in the U.S.
He's come up with another term: "climate hawks".
(See the seven pages of comments that follow.)
[Crosspost]
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This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
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