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One article brought quite a lot of complaints from conservationists over the project which i find ironic. As someone else here said if rules exist they should b
by FridayoLeary 1y ago
One article brought quite a lot of complaints from conservationists over the project which i find ironic. As someone else here said if rules exist they should be applied equally to everyone. In this case the biden administration suspended them in order to help the project and now they are being reinstated.
- bawolff 1y agoI don't see why its so ironic. The environment isn't a binary. Its a complex system where the same thing can have both good and bad effects on different parts. Conservationists aren't climate change scientists. They are both going to be focused on the separate parts of the environment they specialize in.
- FridayoLeary 1y agoWe can evaluate if these projects as a net positive or negative for the enviroment. The enviroment can be divided into local and wider. Which is why i'm suspicious of how good electric cars are for example. If this project will wreak havoc on the local enviroment that is certainly very important and the irony of the situation is that it is getting sidelined in favour of broader enviromental concerns. I don't know what respective weights to attach to them, but the cynic in me says that washington prefers a big project which has better optics, then more local concerns.
- jjk166 1y agoConservation and environmentalism are two different things. Preventing a particular population of turtles from being disrupted is conservation, reducing smog in a city is environmentalism. Their goals may overlap, and many people who care about the environment also care about the things that live in those environments, but their goals may at times be at odds. Delaying the implementation of a solar plant, which helps reduce pollution at the expense of consuming a small area of land, is a perfect example.