It's not an environmentalist agenda as much as a technique that media uses to mislead people. The more random statistics writers include, even if they are total

It's not an environmentalist agenda as much as a technique that media uses to mislead people. The more random statistics writers include, even if they are totally irrelevant, based on nonsense, or logically inconsistent, the more "informed" the readers feel when they skim the article. Once you include statistics it's no longer an opinion piece, but cold, hard fact backed by science... or something.