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This seems like a good thread to get some different answers on a question I've been working on.
>Why do certain left-leaning personality types gravitate towards natural resource fields of study/work/interest?
I went to school and got a forestry degree and have noticed for some time that it is always the same basic type of people that I run into that espouse the same statements about "climate change".
Usually there are also general sentiments that they hold about "racial equality", "systemic racism", "the failures of capitalism", and "humans bad" that tie into their beliefs.
Has anyone else run into this?
For example, I have encountered many people (both in natural resource fields of study and other areas of focus) that are "worried about climate change and the environment" yet do not pursue a career in or engage in any kind of active management activities that work to actually improve the ecosystems they are concerned about. Or they ARE studying natural resources and yet they end up working in fields that do not accomplish this end (outdoor recreation, business/customer service side of a natural resource business/agency, ect). They almost always agree that we need to restore and protect the "planet", yet when you present them with the actual reality of that active protection and management there are 1001 excuses or critiques for "not like THAT'.
At most they work a few seasonal positions at an agency or internship or volunteer, but nothing that is actually making any real progress on managing the resources they are screeching about.
When confronted, they will tell you "I am raising awareness" or some other bullshit. I think that these people just attach themselves to whatever filed or ideology allows them to hold the moral high ground over other people and they use that as an excuse to chastize them.
For reference I'm in the southeast US.
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