Modern environmentalism has always been that way. Its main purpose is to distract from the fact that the vast majority of pollution comes from massive companies, and instead blame average citizens. You end up with an industry which capitalizes on the overly emotional and naive and is incentivized to never actually solve what it claims it wants to.
You will also see these kinds of arguments when it comes to overpopulation. The logic is that fewer people leads to less pollution, which doesn't actually work that way. And at the same time they argue to bring in massive numbers of people from the third world and fund those countries with huge amounts of foreign aid which increases how much they impact the environment.
All activism becomes self defeating at some point. If they solve the problem, they would put a lot of people out of a job. This goes for government as well. If the tax code was simple (or even functioned sensiblely) how many accounts, attorneys, and taxmen would have to get real jobs?
Modern environmentalism has always been that way. Its main purpose is to distract from the fact that the vast majority of pollution comes from massive companies, and instead blame average citizens. You end up with an industry which capitalizes on the overly emotional and naive and is incentivized to never actually solve what it claims it wants to.
You will also see these kinds of arguments when it comes to overpopulation. The logic is that fewer people leads to less pollution, which doesn't actually work that way. And at the same time they argue to bring in massive numbers of people from the third world and fund those countries with huge amounts of foreign aid which increases how much they impact the environment.
All activism becomes self defeating at some point. If they solve the problem, they would put a lot of people out of a job. This goes for government as well. If the tax code was simple (or even functioned sensiblely) how many accounts, attorneys, and taxmen would have to get real jobs?