Why we can’t have a true environmental movement

Oct. 30, 2021

Protecting the environment used to be caring for the animals and plants that live near your home. Their habitats are forests, grasslands, wetland, lakes and rivers. These are physical places which you can visit just by leaving your house and walking a few minutes.

The preservation of these habitats is the number one priority to keep them alive . Habitat destruction is the number one cause of wildlife extinction. That means not building any new roads and opposing any new housing or industrial estates. Resisting infrastructure projects is often seen as opposing progress. The construction industry depends on destroying nature. There are billion dollar interests at stake.

In terms of national policies preserving the local nature also means opposing positive net immigration. Any additional people in your country need a place to live. In developed countries they also need more roads and parkign spaces. Hence new housing estates, shops and other infrastructure will be built. The habitats of local wildlife gets destroyed in an incredibly short timespan.

But opposing immigration is also a nationalist viewpoint. You can’t be an environmentalist without also being classified as a nationalist. Since the second world war all generations were brought up to hate this exact policy. Today you have to be open and welcome anyone from any cultural backround with open arms.

Maybe due to this internal conflict caring about climate change has become popular. It works fundamentally different. Instead of going out into nature, concerned climate activists remain at home and get scared by some charts on a screen. The CO₂ chart looks bad, so do some temperature charts. Just from a graph you have no idea what caused this change. You have to believe what you hear in the news. Since you aren’t leaving home you never see or don’t care that solar farms are biological deserts supporting very species or that wind turbines are killing your local birds. At least you can’t be called a nationalist.

 

Pictures of a solar farm in England

The measure "Normalized Difference Vegetation Index" (NDVI) for a ground solar farm in England is the same as suburban housing. From a ground perspective though the solar park only supports short grass. It is also completely fenced off for any medium to large sized animals. Most gardens are richer in life.