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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LL: Yeah, and the price of lumber in the northwest went up, and people blamed the tree huggers for lost jobs in the lumber industry.

因为砍的树少了，价格就上升了，伐木业的就业机会也少了；他们都怪环保人士呀！在这些人眼里，tree huggers显然不是赞美的称呼了。

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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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But Kerry the presidential candidate had caved to Democrat pressure groups: unions and tree huggers.

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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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As president, Lula has shown little patience for tree-huggers (see article), never mind grandstanding gringos.

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