I was active in habitat preservation issues for a number of years.
That experience left me very cynical about the usefulness of mainstream environmental organizations, activists, and journalists who reported on environmental issues.
Watching hundreds of thousands of acres of fragile grasslands that was beef producing ranches get destroyed and converted to government subsidized monoculture crop production (mostly wheat) was disheartening and depressing.
Watching the press and environmental groups
1. Mostly ignore the government facilitated destruction of massive amounts of grassland ecosystems
2. While spending vast amounts of reporting space, activist time, and environmental organizations resources complaining about and developing policies against ranching
Was (to be charitable) a trifle infuriating.
Particularly since ranchers and ranching were the single biggest force saving rangeland from destruction.
I was active in habitat preservation issues for a number of years.
That experience left me very cynical about the usefulness of mainstream environmental organizations, activists, and journalists who reported on environmental issues.
Watching hundreds of thousands of acres of fragile grasslands that was beef producing ranches get destroyed and converted to government subsidized monoculture crop production (mostly wheat) was disheartening and depressing.
Watching the press and environmental groups
1. Mostly ignore the government facilitated destruction of massive amounts of grassland ecosystems
2. While spending vast amounts of reporting space, activist time, and environmental organizations resources complaining about and developing policies against ranching
Was (to be charitable) a trifle infuriating.
Particularly since ranchers and ranching were the single biggest force saving rangeland from destruction.