The environmentalist movements are a cult.
You don't need to take le based Hitler-Trump-Putin pill to see it. You just need to consider how safe we can make nuclear or thorium reactors, and see how the supposed protectors of nature would rather build coal power plants than to build a reactor or buy gas.
It makes no sense. It is simply religious doctrine. Nuclear is BAD, therefore it must not be used, even if it would reduce pollution by a great margin. It is the same as a starving muslim or jew with some ham beside him. The ham is perfectly edible and will do him no harm, but he is not reasonable and won't eat it.
They are the OG grifters with a cult following. That's why I'm sceptical on what data they put out. If I was paid handsomely by the government to study ghosts, I would totally not say ghosts aren't real and loose my job.
There is a fantastic passage I read once about this that I simply have not been able to find in the five years since. It made the point that many environmentalists will themselves admit that they intentionally choose more costly/destructive/wasteful policies because they
prefer the sacrifice it entails. While they never frame it as a religion, they behave and think like a religion.
Human beings are this evil that disturbs a natural and pure order just by their presence. I once read a thing talking about space industrialization and how we'd have to figure out how we're going to deal with pollution and littering... on asteroids. Places no living thing lives on, that nobody sees, literally the perfect place to dump trash. To them humankind is fundamentally different from nature (although they can't, because it's removed from the sort of religious doctrine that would justify this) in a way that just by existing we constantly disturb the cosmic order. Then you add in all the gay Communist shit that goes hand in hand with it and the ascetic values and you get this attitude where conspicuous sacrifice is what determines the merit of a policy.
This is why you can't just build nuclear plants. The shittiness of windmills and solar panels IS the point. They're not Good People (TM) that overcame their inherently flawed nature if they don't suffer. Even if it ends up actually hurting the world more and especially hurting human society. There are actual quotes from these jackasses talking openly about it. Nor does it matter that many of their goals (like conserving land and being organic/anti-GMO) are directly contradictory.
Of course they also tend to think in ways that don't even make sense, like taking a static view of nature. Even though nature itself evolves and changes, any change WE cause is a BAD, UNNATURAL change, and they'll even actively fight the forces of nature themselves like propping up loser species and going on vindictive crusades against invasive species. Not in contexts that matter for us, that's a different matter, but for its own sake.
Environmentalism as a general idea is perfectly fine, necessary. But Environmentalism as it has become in the west, particularly when attached to the cause of global warming (something I think is probably real, but the more moderate, sane environmental economists project that it's easier to just
adjust for it than try to stop it: a little bit of low-hanging fruit emissions abatement, a lot of preparation), has totally become a religion, and what's more, a death cult, even a death cult that will blindly ignore facts well-accepted by everyone else (as it does with the Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian conviction that we're going to overpopulate, even though known reserves of damn near everything keep growing and demographic transition's already sitting in in poor countries).
I guarantee you, this shit will wind up causing a mass death event, like a little Communism. They almost come from opposite ends: Communism tried to turn men into gods. Environmentalism demonizes human beings.
