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its dishonest to say that significant minority or even majority of environmentalists condemn affecting the environment, since merely standing and doing nothing is affecting environment.
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most activists and part of all people condemn significantly damaging actions-pollution of water and land, deforestation, needless mining of resources and so on.
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to make a point, your starting point has to be honest. it doesnt look like it is.
Comment by DrRidleyCooper at 25/01/2020 at 16:27 UTC
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I appreciate the comment, but there are some. And this thinking leaks into the everyday: think about the moral outrage heaped onto people for driving a Hummer or flying in a private jet. Their actions are wasteful and pollute (affect the environment) but their particular actions can not be plausibly said to create suffering. So we've made a mistake, or at least I argue in the article...