I used to think like this. But there is a problem that people taking drastic or symbolic actions out of desperation, for change,
any change, are likely to make things worse not better.
For the record, I care about the environment a lot. I think most environmental activists are fools. The Democrats will block pipelines to symbolically show that they are helping climate change.
It doesn't actually mean less oil is being pumped from the ground. Instead of being piped from Canada to the US, it has to be moved on trains to a sea port and than shipped on an oil tanker. That increases Carbon emissions. Then the oil gets shipped to a refinery outside the United States to a 3rd world country with fewer regulations on their refineries.
Electric cars really grind my gears. The rare earth and copper components of their batteries are predominantly mined from CCP front companies exploiting Africans and Chinese minorities in virtually slave-like conditions via pollution intense strip mines and then you still end up releasing the Carbon Dioxide anyway to power the grid to run the electric cars.
Here's a nine minute explanation of how woke neo-Marxist policies to make people poorer will not help the environment.
But this isn't limited to environmentalism, it is just more obvious that emotionally driven knee-jerk change for change's sake often has the opposite effect intended.
There is strong evidence the Diversity Equity and Inclusion exacerbates racism, sexism, and the various other bad isms more than it alleviates them.
In fact, academic research suggests that the phrase "trigger warning" before saying something controversial actually makes people more pissed off than simply blindsiding someone with a controversial statement.
