They're not counter environmentalists. They're just a different brand of environmentalist that prioritize local flora and fauna over global carbon/plastic/etc.
When they say stupid things, I make fun of them too. You just don't notice because your specific variant of lunacy isn't being ridiculed.
There's a balance to be struck here. As far as I'm concerned people who think we oughta destroy unique ecology to slap up a solar farm can share the same hole as the people who think the impact on pest-tier animal populations is justification for not slapping up the solar farm.
When they say stupid things, I make fun of them too. You just don't notice because your specific variant of lunacy isn't being ridiculed.
There's a balance to be struck here. As far as I'm concerned people who think we oughta destroy unique ecology to slap up a solar farm can share the same hole as the people who think the impact on pest-tier animal populations is justification for not slapping up the solar farm.