Talk:Anti-environmentalism

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Why is denial of global warming anti-environmentalist? --85.78.199.96 (talk) 00:08, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Because it touches on environment-related scientific matters and is used as a pretext to slime environmentalists. Do you know of any global-warming-denying environmentalists? Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX 00:17, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
These bullshitters. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 03:27, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
In other words, it is anti-environmentalism because the people who do it are called anti-environmentalists by some? --85.78.199.96 (talk) 04:18, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
You have a tough case to make if you want to call denial of the biggest environmental problem in human history "not anti-environmentalism." Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 04:25, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
If somebody honestly believed that global warming was not occurring but was not generally hostile to environmental causes, that person would not be an anti-environmentalist, but I do not think this describes any global warming denier today. Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX 04:29, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
What about the ones listed in the post? Granted, the total number I know of is a couple of guys writing a blog. And you can always claim that they are posing as greens to gain cred. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 04:42, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

denial of the role of CFCs in the degradation of the ozone layer might be the most hilarious thing possible. Interview any good licensed HVAC technician and they'll tell you how much it's drilled that you can't vent refrigerant (pure CFC/HCFC) into the atmosphere because it'll fuck up the ozone layer. You get fined tens of thousands of dollars for doing it because everyone in the industry is completely aware of how destructive it is to the environment.

If one dislikes natural environment, and would prefer it to be eventually replaced by an engineered one, is he a anti-environmentalist? I am not a climate change denier, I recycle, and all that stuff. I just dislike nature and eventually (obviously today we need nature) I would prefer it to be completely altered and controlled. Again, is this anti-environmentalism? I dont see it reflected in this page, probably because only a handful of people hold this view.— Unsigned, by: Somebody or other / talk / contribs

"Watermelon" has been de-linked as it only redirected to itself. The link has been replaced with an explanation of the term and a link the red-baiting article. Frostbyte (talk) 23:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

[edit] Religious justifications

I'm surprised that there's little discussion about religious justifications for anti-environmentalism. For instance while many christians insist that they are charged as caretakers of god's earth, those who stand to profit from environmental destruction often find solace in that famous line from the end of genesis: "Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." . . . Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Australia's current PM seems to subscribe to this line of reasoning, so I was wondering if there is a specific term for the "subdue the earth as god commands" position. Rikashi (talk) 04:07, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

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