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I agree that caring about others can lead to socialist ideals. I also think caring about others can lead people to free market ideals. I suspect if the environm

• pjc50 6y ago
  Protecting the environment will have costs. On whom should those costs fall? (Both in terms of tax incidence and forgone economic opportunity) That's why you get the left-right distinction. (I don't think I've seen sincere right-wing environmentalism beyond a limited kind of NIMBYist habitat protection and some not very sincere blue-green Tory branding?)
• Can_Not 6y ago
  > I suspect if the environmental movement was to be independent of a socialist movement it would get more support from the right. I think it's more like, the complete absence of ideas from the right, and absence of genuine caring about the issue in general, is what has left environmentalism with no one but socialists to work with.