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by MrBuddyCasino 1212 days ago
A lot of environmentalism has unfortunately degraded into opposition to civilisation. In the absence of a viable Christianity, the innate feeling of guilt and sin caused by consumption must be atoned for. The way to do this is to sacrifice prosperity (evil transportation, evil food, evil power plants) at the altar of The Environment. In the form of Extinction Rebellion this takes on the character of a death cult - check their founder's manifests.

Note that this is not climate change denialism or something similar - the problem is that technical progress, increased prosperity and consumption aren't seen as good and welcome, but inherently evil by a certain vocal minority. Otherwise you'd see a lot more effort into making prosperity compatible with environmental regards (like nuclear plants).

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what?