earthist

English

Noun

earthist (plural earthists)

1. A proponent of earthism.
   • 1994, John B. Cobb, Sustaining the Common Good:

     Enormous amounts of background work had been done, much of it by earthists, who presented well-reasoned proposals to implement some of their agenda.

   • 2000, William Kittredge, The nature of generosity, page 226:

     Polls taken in the late 1990s indicate that 40 million United States citizens, up from roughly 10 million in the 1970s, might be called "earthists."

   • 2007 September 14, Bonzo, “Poppycock Coppock.”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet):

     Its time the 'earthists' grew up and faced reality.

2. (science fiction) An advocate for people who live on earth, as opposed to those on other planets.
   • 1967, Maggi Lidchi, Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, Earthman, page 10:

     He moved forward, determinedly trampling on people's feet. "Make way for an earthist," he called out in a polite but ringing tone.

   • 1970 -, William Whyte Watt, An American rhetoric, page 282:

     We cannot protect the planet Mars against our enemies from the Earth if we permit these Earthists to flourish in our midst.

3. (in combination) One who believes the earth has a specific property or history.
   • 1987, Michael Pitman, Adam and evolution: a scientific critique of neo-Darwinism, →ISBN, page 238:

     'Young earthists' will complain I have skimped their case.

   • 1996, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, Surviving the PC University: The Best of Heterodoxy, →ISBN, page 16:

     (It is as if Geography departments had been taken over by flat earthists, Biology by disciples of Lombroso, or Astronomy departments by the persecutors of Galileo).

   • 2010, Michael FitzGerald, Hitler's Occult War, page 77:

     If a way could be found of detecting the enemy vessels at a great distance, the hollow-earthists argued, it would enable the German navy to take action at once.

Adjective

earthist (comparative more earthist, superlative most earthist)

1. Pertaining to earthism.
   • 2000, Norman C. Habel, Shirley Wurst, Earth Story in Genesis, →ISBN, page 11:

     This is why theologian John Cobb, in what he calls the Earthist challenge, says somewhat startlingly: Earth is a far more inclusive and suitable object of devotion than Christianity, a nation, or economic growth...

   • 2000, William Kittredge, The nature of generosity, page 226:

     People with earthist sentiments are getting wind into their sails worldwide; they are likely to command enormous political power in coming decades — without, one hopes, evolving into bureaucracies.

   • 2006, Pamela Brubaker, Rebecca Todd Peters, Laura A. Stivers, Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World, →ISBN:

     Proponents of an earthist perspective seek to reorient globalization away from individual profit-driven values toward a different set of moral norms by which supposed scientific and technological advances might be judged.