climatism

Noun

climatism (uncountable)

1. The climate movement, especially when viewed as an ideology or religion.
   • The campaign to improve the image of Brazil in the eyes of foreigners, however, is likely to be thwarted by the rhetoric of the administration itself. Ernesto Araújo, Brazil’s foreign minister, last week raised eyebrows when he told an audience in Washington DC that the objective of “climatism” was...2019 September 22, Bryan Harris, Andres Schipani, David Keohane, “Brazil tries to refresh its image after Amazon fires”, in Financial Times
2. The theory or belief, often associated with racist discourses, that the character of a group is profoundly impacted by the climate in which it emerges.
   • This refutation of climatism via regional identity formation was paralleled in the Scottish Enlightenment with the attempt to de-prioritize environmental explanations of human difference in favor of national character.2018, Nicholas B. Miller, “Philosophical History at the Cusp of Globalization: Scottish Enlightenment Reflections on Colonial Spanish America”, in Concha Roldán, Daniel Brauer, Johannes Rohbeck...
3. (rare) The relocation of a person to a different climate for therapeutic or recreational purposes; climatotherapy.
   • In Indochina, this practice was rooted in various European and colonial (British India) practices. The transfer of the therapeutic and tourist uses of hydrotherapy and climatism responded to health and social demands. These uses progressively lost their medical aspect and became tourist practices.2014, Aline Demay, “The Origin of Tourist Practices in Indochina (1856–1910)”, in Tourism and Colonization in Indochina (1898–1939), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 19