I find pretty much all politically active environmentalists to be economically and sociologically illiterate. Proposals range from, "let's turn off the economy", to "let's reduce the standard of living" or "let's just increase the cost of living 10x as much". That is not to say that the economists are any better, because they are often sociologically and environmentally illiterate.

It seems that to be politically active you have to turn off part of your brain and accept whatever ideological bullshit your chosen tribe pushes fervently as their doctrine.

I do not think you can actually achieve much politically at this point in time, without angering and alienating a lot of the electorate. The environmentalists say, "fuck them, we will force them with laws" and the economists will say, "fuck the poor, we will create a pay to play system so that the rich can continue with their lifestyle and the poor will be priced out of it".

I think democracy only works because it averages over all these very different groups to get a solution that satisfies nobody but is somehow pointing in the right direction.