When climate thugs come to Portugal
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Environmentalists as they exist now don’t have a point, but at the same time I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water and end up living in Shanghai. I think that’s what u/SparkMandrill83 was going for.
Exactly right. I like that my city isn't a smog infested hell hole
Tell me, when exactly did they have a point?
Maybe with (some of) the original Earth Day stuff when it was less about "OMG GLOBAL WARMING" and more about "let's not pollute our rivers so much." Of course, I'm sure that was also corrupt in its own ways.
I'm not sure I could point to any time when I can say "this movement was definitely fine." What I'm saying is less "this movement was good and became corrupted" and more "I do want some things in place that keep everywhere from becoming smog central."
I call that conservation. Not environmentalism.
The former is sensible hygienics. The latter is bossy, preachy regulatory-state lunacy that has never accomplished anything noteworthy.
Right, that’s the distinction I was thinking of but I forgot the proper labels. My bad.
Wasn't the guy who started Earth Day a communist who murdered his girlfriend? I'm not going to say all activists are bad, but activism is inherently a bad thing.