I think your notion of “environmental progress” itself is skewing things.
When humans were hunter gatherers, we didn’t have much ability to modify our surroundings.
Currently, we are bemoaning global warming, but if the earth was cooling instead, we would bemoan that too.
Environmentalism seems to only look at part of the effects.
No one boasts about how high the biodiversity is at zoos. No one is talking about cities being a great habitat for pigeons as an environmental success story.
The whole idea around the environmentalist movement is the naturalistic fallacy turned up to 11. Any change made by humans automatically becomes a problem.
It’s goal seems to be “make the earth resemble what it would look like had humans never existed”.
(Name one way humans made an improvement to some aspect of the environment compared to what it was a million years ago)
A goal that kind of gets harder by default as humanities ability to modify the earth increases.
I think your notion of “environmental progress” itself is skewing things.
When humans were hunter gatherers, we didn’t have much ability to modify our surroundings.
Currently, we are bemoaning global warming, but if the earth was cooling instead, we would bemoan that too.
Environmentalism seems to only look at part of the effects.
No one boasts about how high the biodiversity is at zoos. No one is talking about cities being a great habitat for pigeons as an environmental success story.
The whole idea around the environmentalist movement is the naturalistic fallacy turned up to 11. Any change made by humans automatically becomes a problem.
It’s goal seems to be “make the earth resemble what it would look like had humans never existed”.
(Name one way humans made an improvement to some aspect of the environment compared to what it was a million years ago)
A goal that kind of gets harder by default as humanities ability to modify the earth increases.