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Ecotistical

A term coined by David Crawford of the Manitoba Product Stewardship Corporation, referring to:

  1. Characteristic of those having inflated the truthfulness about their own environmental accomplishments
  2. Characteristic of having an exaggerated sense of environmental importance
  3. An environmental disregard of others

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