People seem to forget hunters and fishers are still the biggest funding source for conservationism and are almost overwhelmingly conservative voters.
But no, the people who live deep in urban jungles have the audacity to call them “environment haters”.
Conservation to enable ongoing future exploitation. That's a very different brand of conservation.
There's a reason those same groups refuse to support policies that would stave off climate change: it would require less exploitation of natural resources, and thus there's no money in it.
Ah apologies then, my knowledge of US politics is fairly surface based. I usually associate the oil and co. lobbyists with the conservative government, and they don’t have the best record in terms of natural conservation (I understand they do the same with the liberal side as well). I guess, that’s a bad habit.
I would consider myself pretty centrist, but I thought HN was a good place to get away from the thoughtless political vitriol that exists everywhere else. For a forum that's usually very well spoken, it's wild to see how quick people are to make claims about people and things they know nothing about. Political polarization really is going to destroy this country, damn.