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For example, I believe that carbon emissions and the resulting climate change is the biggest climate issue we face.
I live in California, many people here are against damming because it will damage the natural environment where the reservoirs form. I think the reservoir damage is worth the “carbon cleanliness” of hydro power. Other people care more about preserving untouched nature more than the climate. They have different goals.
Still others think we should reduce consumption of resources like plastics because of their environmental impact. They may prefer more expensive or energy intense production methods and recycling methods.
Most activists won’t say something else is bad. Eg I think recycling is good, but I would prefer lower greenhouse emissions over lower trash. FWIW I don’t eat meat. It’s better for the environment, because it’s reduce emissions. It’s also less wasteful of water which is environmentally expensive. I don’t eat almonds for the same reasons. But I’d rather expend water if it reduced emissions, but I’m not sure of any examples where those are opposed, maybe with certain fabrics and their cost of production?
My jobs is also to reduce methane emissions at natural gas facilities, because in 2023 we need gas so let’s try to make it less polluting.
while that is true, that is minority, I see ALOT of activists that actibly hold contradictory positions.
For example I have seen, ALOT of people (and I know you are not one of them) "I dont drink dairy milk because it is bad for the earth, instead I drink Almond Milk"..... ehhhhhh
Supplanting Almond Milk for Cow milk is a good position if you are doing it for animal ethics, but do claim you are saving the earth by doing it is non-sense.
>> I think recycling is good, but I would prefer lower greenhouse emissions over lower trash
This is not a contradictory position, it is sad the recycling movement has lost its way soo much..
The movement is/was REDUCE>REUSE>RECYCLE... is not just recycling. Some how we have skipped the first 2 and just worry about the last one. Part of that is need for the economy for always be consuming... so there is incentives by both government and corporations to get people to buy less durable less fixable goods.
This is why right to repair is critical to the environmental movement, but here again I have seen alot of climate activists posting from their iPhone how it is dangerous to allow people to fix their property..
Much of this material is also unethically mined. Children are coerced to mine some of this material.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news. You may be able to downvote this comment but you cannot downvote reality.
But no, as somebody thoroughly on the left wing of the political spectrum, and a believer in most of the things you accuse climate activists of, I can attest that I’m a minority. I know a bunch of climate activists exists that have full faith that capitalism will solve the crises, some actually believe it has basically been solved (I call them climate optimists; and is a form of climate denialism).
However I do want to defend my camp here a little. Have you considered that perhaps we are right? GMO was supposed to end world hunger, or at least provide a global food security, it was pointed out at the time that no such thing would happen (as we already could have food security through more equal distribution). Now GMO is a pretty established technology that is rolled out in most of the world, and lo-and-behold, food security is still an issue.
Today I see nuclear power pitch similarly as a solution to global warming, however looking at the data, seeing different energy policies, where some countries keep building more reactors, others keep what they have, and some—but few—decommission and phase out nuclear power. What the data indicates is that nuclear power policy is pretty much irrelevant next to a policy of renewable proliferation and other energy savings measures. In other words it doesn’t matter. It can even be argued, because of the cost of nuclear power, that keeping them on is drawing away funds which could otherwise be used in more effective climate measures.