Environmental Baddies on Yik Yak | Hot take: rhetoric like “you can’t support ____ and be an environmentalist” or “youre not an environmentalist if you support ____” is extremely harmful to to environmentalism, you aren’t changing people’s beliefs you are alienating them from the cause.

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Environmental Baddies 5w

Hot take: rhetoric like “you can’t support ____ and be an environmentalist” or “youre not an environmentalist if you support ____” is extremely harmful to to environmentalism, you aren’t changing people’s beliefs you are alienating them from the cause.

Anonymous 5w

what statements like that do is make environmentalism more principled, like no we’re not going have a green energy transition by 10x strip mining for rare earth metals gathered by child labor. this is a good thing bc it raises the standard and if more people were behind that standard we wouldn’t be in the situation we are rn

Anonymous 5w

I mean there are things you literally CANT support and also claim to be an environmentalist. How can you support fracking yet say you care about the environment?

Anonymous 5w

Environmentalism is not a fad btw you’re either in or out

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Anonymous

#1 5w

i don't understand... so saying "you can't support clearcutting the Amazon for beef grazing land and be an environmentalist" isn't ok? or is this about trump, the pedophile.

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Anonymous

#3 5w

hot take as in hot pile of poop. If a cause can't have standards, it's not a cause