Anti-environmentalism is on the rise but it’s full of contradictions
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https://the-14.com/anti-environmentalism-is-on-the-rise-but-its-full-of-contradictions/

Anti-environmentalism is on the rise but it’s full of contradictions…

Anti-environmentalism is gaining ground. Attacks on the net zero goal and hostility to conservation measures and anti-pollution targets are becoming more common. And, as recent election results have shown, these tactics are reshaping politics in Britain and across the west... The Conversation #climatechange #antienvironmentalism #conservation #politics

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/anti-environmentalism-is-on-the-rise-but-its-full-of-contradictions/

Ugh.

I love when brave people put their #clothing #design ideas out there. Sometimes a little #edgy, sometimes a little daring. Often not something I would wear, often implying/saying something with which I cannot agree, but #FreeSpeech, right?

No.

#HateSpeech is right out. #Fascion is right out. Misogyny should be reported.

And I just discovered I get the same gut-punch feel from designs glorifying #logging / #lumbering. Especially in-your-face #antienvironmentalism.

Even in #SanFrancisco, which generally has excellent #PublicTransportation, you have this: https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/14/san-francisco-parking-cone-wars-neighborhood-disputes/

We're talking about the Excelsior District, which evidently has crappy public transportation but this is the real problem with public transportation: There are *always*—take it to the bank—gaps.

Whether it’s (this is the classic example) shift workers facing reduced schedules on nights and weekends, inadequate schedules generally, crappy connections, poorly planned routes, or something else, there are *always*—take it the bank—gaps.

My rule of thumb when I relied on public transportation in the #EastBay (in the late 1980s) was that it would take three times as long as driving by car (I owned cars intermittently). My impression is that it has only gotten worse since.

When I was a cab driver in San Francisco, I didn’t regard public transportation as my competition. I understood that the more people relied on it, the more it would let them down. I’d know it when I saw a mess of people pouring out of the Castro Street Muni Metro station.

Driving for #Uber in #Pittsburgh, I got a lot of business from poor people (who couldn’t afford to be taking Uber) simply because buses are so awful—and not that much cheaper. This became a problem because people would make up false complaints trying to get free rides (Uber now uses artificial idiocy to try to filter these complaints, leading to an escalation in their seriousness).

Throwing money at this problem is simplistic. When we’re talking about multigenerational homes with elder care and child care responsibilities, we have to look at the demands we place on workers, for whom transportation issues are one more problem in already unmanageable schedules. We have to look at employers’ insistence that office workers all show up at the same times in the same places. We have to take seriously the problem of getting groceries home.

But politicians and anti-car people refuse to meaningfully address the challenges that real people face living real lives. This is the same mistake environmentalists made when they blew off workers’ needs for well-paying jobs. It is borne of absolute arrogance. And we see the backlash in #ClimateDenial and #antienvironmentalism. It ranks right along with #neoliberalism (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/13/stiglitz-captialism-economics-democracy-book/ ) in driving the working class to the right.

Good Riddance to the Architect of the GOP’s Environmental Culture Wars
James Watt was a fiery evangelical, a cultural laughingstock—and instrumental in shaping modern GOP rhetoric on the environment

https://newrepublic.com/article/173705/good-riddance-architect-gops-environmental-culture-wars

James Watt: Ronald Reagan’s secretary of the Interior; much of his rhetoric, as well as his legacy of anti-environmentalist culture war, endures. ...

#JamesWatt #RonaldReagan #environment #neoliberalism #EcologicalDamage #CultureWars #AntiEnvironmentalism #environmentalism

@AlexanderJulius @Bergluftliebe

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"...receive an additional $5,400 in campaign contributions from #oil and #gas companies.

This is an especially strong relationship considering that many elected officials vote against #environmental policies nearly 100% of the time, thereby compounding the cycle of #antienvironmentalism and increasing rewards in the form of #contributions...

These findings provide strong and..."