We can take steps to make fossil fuel industries less dangerous while we transition to cleaner energy. The toll of fossil fuels on human health and the environment is well documented. But our dependence on fossil fuels exacts a very high price on the people who extract or process these fuels.
extremism /ÉªkËstriËËmÉªzÉm/ noun. extremism. /ÉªkËstriËËmÉªzÉm/. noun. Learner's definition of EXTREMISM. [noncount] : belief in and support for ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable. political extremism.
In the 1990s, right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country. During the past several years, special interest extremismâas characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)âhas emerged as a serious terrorist threat.