Bezzle wrote..

There is no aspect of environmentalism which is not reducible to elemental property-rights, vandalism and trespass, which means that the sole reason environmental legislation exists is to provide a phalanx of socialist bureaucrats, lawyers and politicians with leechfuck livelihoods writing and enforcing tons of crap, with the sale of "indulgences" (AKA: bribes, exemptions, campaign contributions, "credits", "off-sets", etc) being a primary motivation.

BS. The above photo is one clear aspect of non-environmentalism - business gone wild! We used to have a great deal of that in this country before the "enviro-nazis" started making noise. Man and business will do the above every chance they get without regulation and oversight. This is a fact. The other things you mention are nothing more than a byproduct of ALL human endeavor. Don't like it? Find another species to belong to. Or perhaps you already have...

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