ecofreak

English

ecofreak (plural ecofreaks)

(informal, derogatory) A person with a passion for protecting the natural environment; an ecological activist.
- 1973, Daedalus: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences:
  The initial result of the rational ecofreak policies would be that the level of measured income would fall, or at least rise less rapidly...
- 1999, Fred H Knelman, Every Life is a Story:
  The corporate world has responded to a perceived threat to the economic order by casting the environmentalist as un-American, as an ecofreak...

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