There's no such thing as The Environment. There's environments that bears live in, fish, viruses, humans, bacteria, etc. That's why I specify that I'm a human environmentalist; to distinguish myself from anti-human environmentalists. Those in the anti-human environmental religion see humanity exiting the cave and modifying nature to build better shelter as original sin. Anything non-human that happens is "sacred", and anything humans do to modify nature is "sacrilege".
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