Environmentalism is on a collision course with climate change activism

With the monetization of climate activism, environmentalism is suffering. Environmentalism has become ignored, where environmentalists are now fearful of pushing back on climate change initiatives that lead to the degradation of the environment.

There is a growing awareness that climate change policies are beginning to confront environmentalism. Climate change activists have a powerful shared social identity, where ‘one is saving the Earth’ if they advocate policies to lower carbon emissions, at the cost of preserving the environment. This is destroying pro-environmentalist thinking, as radical climate change solutions are being called for. EVs are leading to the exploitation of African communities and promoting child labour, and natural habitats are being cleared for solar farms. Pristine mountainous areas are being permanently altered for renewable power production.

The environmental movement of yesterday has been hijacked by the climate change movement today.

Climate change evangelism is preventing further enhancement about how we understand climate science. Scientists must follow the narrative to obtain grants, which prevents them searching for other explanations of the climate change, and in particular the global warming phenomenon, such as massive urbanization and the ripping up of forests that trap CO2, while expensive and subsidized carbon trapping projects are being rolled out as solutions.

Climate change activism has created a one dimensional view of global warming, based upon modelling, rather than proven scientific hypotheses. There is likely to be pushback on this, as the environment is being destroyed in the name of saving the planet.