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Chris Waigl wrote:
> From the title, I initially thought this was about parents being so busy
> with two or more children that they can't manage any more to
> bring/wash/manage reusable eating and drinking implements, diapers etc. The
> meaning of environmentalist has morphed a little since 1987.

Yes, I think nowadays "environment" typically refers to habitat,
terrain, or ecology. Yet, even in the 1980s that may have been the
default interpretation; the word is certainly ambiguous.

In the "Behavioral and Brain Sciences" journal, "environment" and
"heredity" are employed as contrasting terms. Within the main article
and the reply articles "environment", "environmental", and
"environmentalist" occur many times.

Garson

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