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Why are environmentalists generally mocked, while "counter-environmentalists" who complain about birds getting killed by windmills, the nasty chemicals in solar
by ZeroGravitas 1y ago
Why are environmentalists generally mocked, while "counter-environmentalists" who complain about birds getting killed by windmills, the nasty chemicals in solar panels or EV batteries, or the extreme environmental cost of cotton tote bags(!) not greeted similarly?
My theory is that everyone knows they are lying and don't care about the environment and just want to attack the real environmentalists.
People point out that he's factually wrong but no one would argue that Trump is sacrificing green energy jobs and cheap clean energy for birds, because no one believes he actually cares in the first place.
But I'm open to other theories.
- potato3732842 1y agoThey're not counter environmentalists. They're just a different brand of environmentalist that prioritize local flora and fauna over global carbon/plastic/etc. When they say stupid things, I make fun of them too. You just don't notice because your specific variant of lunacy isn't being ridiculed. There's a balance to be struck here. As far as I'm concerned people who think we oughta destroy unique ecology to slap up a solar farm can share the same hole as the people who think the impact on pest-tier animal populations is justification for not slapping up the solar farm.