40.5% of matchups won
1,170 matchups
Elo 1680
tracked 2025/05/25 → 2025/07/15
mission: Promote environmental activism · Environmental literature · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing40%
picked as helping wellbeing
774 matchups
41%
picked as hurting wellbeing
396 matchups
People are split on it.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Henry David Thoreau
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34.9% wins · American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
02
Alan Watts
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51.9% wins · English writer and lecturer (1915–1973)
03
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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59.5% wins · American philosopher (1803–1882)
04
Maya Angelou
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58.0% wins · American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
05
Albert Camus
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37.5% wins · French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
Known for
- Wrote 'Desert Solitaire'
- Authored 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'
- Influenced Earth First!
- Critique of public land policies
- Prominent environmental advocate
Based on 1,170 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2025/07/15. Full rankings ·
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