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I don't really understand this attitude either. "You're only pretending to care about the Earth, but you actually care about humans and society as we know it!"

I don't really understand this attitude either. "You're only pretending to care about the Earth, but you actually care about humans and society as we know it!" Right. Duh. So? Some people are definitely weird about it. Others just enjoy fish, or snow, or living without paying for AC. I'd argue it's pretty illogical to equate these, and outright dishonest to dismiss the latter due to the former. The statements: "we're hurting Mother Earth" and "hot rocks are still rocks" are both true and both useless, and dogmatic adherence to either can be shortsighted.

logicprog 3y ago
I'm not dismissing the latter due to the former at all, or saying they're the same — I point out in my original comment not all environmentalists do this. My goals actually align very much with most environmentalist so I'm not trying to say that because some people use weird rhetoric or justifications that we should just ignore the entire movement and the issues at stake. I'm just talking about a particular rhetorical move that I see occasionally that I find a bit annoying. It isn't very common here on hacker news, but in the circles I tend to run in, which are very leftist, you see it a lot more often.