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Originally Posted by Dondilion
I tend to side with whiny environmentalists.
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I'm a lover of the outdoors, have done significant coursework in pretty much all the environmental disciplines, and have have consulted on a number of Superfund projects and was involved in the nationwide clean-up of DOE Manhattan Project sites for over two decades. I've been personally involved in the most environmentally fucked up stuff you can imagine (e.g., the Hanford Site's tank farms).
In my experience, many self-described or activist environmentalists seem to feel that they have the luxury of not needing to recognize real world constraints or needs for energy, infrastructure and the like. In their perfect worlds, we would have all the energy and infrastructure we need without ever having to build it or consider unavoidable trade-offs. Many so-called environmentalists have about as much experience in environmental management as PETA types have in wildlife management (which I believe is also true of most single-issue activists).