pollutician

English

pollutician (plural polluticians)

(derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.
- 2001, Peter Casey, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, page 211:
  Here the polluticians and the developers carved up the cake with gusto.
(sometimes derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives designed to reduce environmental pollution.
- 1971, Electroplating and Metal Finishing, volume 24:
  Too many owners of factory chimneys have already capitulated to the negative attitude of the polluticians and have converted to smokeless fuels.
(derogatory) A corrupt politician
- 2005, Jalani A. Niaah, “Absent Father(s), Garvey's Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement”, in Elísio Salvado Macamo, editor, Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience, Codesria, →ISBN, page 24:
  Indeed the Rastafarian brethren contend that the '"polluticians" [politicians] are selling us out' for their own self-serving interests.