>>1934496I should have specified, I meant environmentalists in politics. The average person on the street who claims to care about the environment probably really does care about the environment. That said, global warming IS overblown; it's a natural process humanity has nothing to do with, and carbon dioxide's link to it is dubious at best, despite the orthodoxy surrounding it. Look at all the idiots over the last century: "The world is entering an ice age, there'll be WW3 over non-frozen land by 1990!" "Oh wait, it's actually global warming, and the ice caps will be totally gone by y2k!" "Oh no, all our coastal cities will be 15 feet underwater by 2010!" "Oh boy, if we don't act now the world will literally catch fire!" Chicken Little can only scream about falling skies and rising seas so many times before he starts to lose credibility.
Now if you want to talk about species extinctions, deforestation, the devastating impacts of invasive species, ACTUAL pollution (ie heavy metals, plastics, caustic/carcinogenic chemicals), or overdevelopment then I'm all ears. But banning cows and gas stoves isn't going to fix everything, and I want to play Minecraft with every politician that tries to take them away from me.
