A clean environment costs money. Wealthier societies tend to have more money than poor ones. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:

and why real environmentalists must support progress

i am an environmentalist.

i value clean air, clean water, forests, rivers, lake, jungles, and wide open wild spaces and well used well conserved means of enjoying them. always have. probably always will.

and this is why i find the issues raised by so many of the self-described “greens” today who have been so subsumed and outright eaten by the “anthropogenic global warming” story so problematic:

because they have become the enemies of actual environmentalism and ecology by setting their goals and demands in opposition to that which actually supports the environment.

and this has become absurd and malformed to the point of being truly dangerous and counterproductive.

these dogmatic eco-warriors have become an actual threat to a cleaner, greener world and they are sucking all the air out of the room, the money out of the system, and both discrediting the valid aims of what i view to be an important bottoms up movement and championing top down actions and mandates that will set it back a century if they don’t knock it off.

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