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America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

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150 points pmags | 3 comments | 10 Apr 25 12:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.702s | source
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RajT88 ◴[10 Apr 25 13:12 UTC] No.43643433[source]▶
I've observed this weird cognitive dissonance with outdoorsmen, since I am quite fond of fishing.

They tend to be a pretty hardcore MAGA bunch, but also don't like pollution because it messes up their sport. When you ask them about stuff like this (how can you support someone who pretty openly wants to mess up your pastime?), they get mad or change the subject.

I get it - people are complicated and can care about many things at once. Nobody likes it when someone is seemingly poking at their belief systems. Still - you'd think it'd give them some kind of pause.

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1. apercu ◴[10 Apr 25 14:04 UTC] No.43643896[source]▶
Yea, see, I always thought that "conservative" meant people wanted to keep things the same and that included natural resources, like wilderness.

But instead, they want the '50's back. The 1850's. I'll leave it at that.

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2. Whoppertime ◴[12 Apr 25 20:36 UTC] No.43667752[source]▶
https://www.independent.org/article/2021/11/22/the-new-blue-... You would find this article from Victor Davis Hanson interesting
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3. apercu ◴[14 Apr 25 17:57 UTC] No.43684210[source]▶
Perhaps. It's an interesting (if very libertarian) perspective. It's somewhat factual but also blowing things out of proportion, exaggerating and with typical right wing "pearl-clutching" while being couched in academic language.