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So do you think the anti-dam crowd is anti-environment? No one wants to be labeled as anti-environment, but when assigning labels, I think it helps to look at
by robobro 3y ago
So do you think the anti-dam crowd is anti-environment?
No one wants to be labeled as anti-environment, but when assigning labels, I think it helps to look at the big picture. I think the anti-nuclear crowd happens to be anti-environment in practice, even if many of them are tree hugging, organic eating, blah blah blah...
- mulmen 3y agoI have never met someone who is anti-environment. That’s an active stance. Everyone values the natural environment differently but labeling someone as actively opposed to it betrays a deep misunderstanding of other views.
- poulsbohemian 3y agoI dunno man, I've met some of these eastern washington landowners that have their heads pretty far up their own asses. At some point apathy and ignorance become malice.
- mulmen 3y ago> At some point apathy and ignorance become malice. Malice requires intent. Apathy and ignorance do not. I see no constructive outcome of following this logically flawed line of thinking.
- Dylan16807 3y agoIt requires intent to maintain a certain level of ignorance, and apathy is often exaggerated on purpose which is also intent.
- mulmen 3y agoGood luck on your sales of Dylan16807’s dictionary but based on these definitions it doesn’t seem useful.
- freedomben 3y agoWhy do you need to assign an "anti-environment" label to anybody? It conveys very little useful meaning, and virtually nobody is going to assign that label to themselves so you immediately break down communication and polarize and you end up getting nowhere.
- Retric 3y agoBeing anti dam/nuclear/whatever doesn’t mean you have the same reasons as everyone else with that opinion. You can be anti dam because of safety concerns around failure of a specific dam. You can dislike nuclear because you dislike massive subsidies. It’s important to address someone’s actual concerns not simply whatever you feel is easiest to attack.
- pfdietz 3y agoThe anti-nuclear movement maybe was anti-environment, in the sense that avoiding nuclear led to higher CO2 emissions, but I don't think that's true now for new nuclear construction.