Detractors like to trivialize environmentalists as "tree huggers," but the bottom line is that pollution makes us sick, right?

诽谤者们喜欢把环境主义者轻描淡写的说成“树木拥抱者”，但是污染真的会让我们生病，不是吗？

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"I'm NOT a tree-hugger," insists Susan Luebbe, a lifelong cattle rancher, "but if I have to buddy up with tree-huggers to stop this, then so be it."

“我不是环保主义者，”苏珊•吕伯坚持说，她在牧场养了一辈子的牛，“可是如果非得要我和他们站在一起不可的话，那么我就当一回吧。”

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Indigenous peoples may not be as anti-green as oil companies, but they are no tree-huggers either.

土著民可能不会和石油公司一样反对环保，但他们也不会去拥护环保。

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Ironically enough, political opposition to building more dams comes from the same crowd of tree huggers who oppose coal, gas and uranium.

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It is at least worth noting, however, that forest people are not always the tree-huggers they are cracked up to be.

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"I don't have any problem with tree-huggers, " he said.

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