someone who believes that people cannot change the way events will happen and that events, especially bad ones, cannot be avoided

"I'm not a fatalist ," she said. "I'm a realist." “我不是宿命论者，”她说。“我是个现实主义者。”

It's wrong to take this fatalist's view of global warming. 以这种宿命论者的观点来看待全球变暖是错误的。