It is unknowable. People who truly want the best for the environment obviously exist, but the outcomes of our environmental policies have secondary and tertiary

It is unknowable. People who truly want the best for the environment obviously exist, but the outcomes of our environmental policies have secondary and tertiary effects that would also benefit people who wanted to make population growth and population change difficult for other reasons. Apologies for the gross long URL, and as always correlation is not causation, but correlations are still worth thinking about: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=redlining%2Cenvironmentalism%2Csegregationist%2Cenvironmentalist%2Clocal+control%2Cgentrification&year_start=1933&year_end=2019&corpus=28&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Credlining%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cenvironmentalism%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csegregationist%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cenvironmentalist%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Clocal%20control%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgentrification%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=redlining%2Cen...