> leading to resentment and rejection of environmentalism as a whole I think people like this because it explains why the "other side" doesn't just listen to t

> leading to resentment and rejection of environmentalism as a whole I think people like this because it explains why the "other side" doesn't just listen to their arguments and follow their prescriptions on how to live exactly. Meanwhile, these other people live _in_ the environment, and so they're obviously concerned about it at some level. My read is that "environmentalism" is used as a "bully plank" and people are rather tired of being manipulated for the ends of elites without any accountability for their policy failures and so generally tend to react quite negatively when it is naively brought into any conversation.