[Gromoljut]

Originally Posted by Gromoljut

You mistake people who simply love nature (instead of only people, which are merely a part of nature) for Al Gore-like new-age pretenders.
I love trees, forests and wild animals. I hate the fact that one can hardly ever meet animals nowadays which were a common sight even 50 years ago. Wolves, lynxes, boars, ... are only examples. I hear stories from my grandparents and even parents - in their time, there was barely a paved road in Slovenia. Now, we build motorways like crazy, demolishing forests and countryside. Cities grow even if their population dwindles - land is used for stupid things like malls and movie theatres.
And it is not only construction & transport that annihilates nature. Cultivars of plants are being artificially developed these days (I am not talking only of GMOs) and monocultured, which not only destroys the soil, but also the genetic diversity of plants and the environment being cleared for their cultivation.
A modern orchard of modern cultivars of apples or peaches is just as harmful to earth as any city or SUV.

Do not mistake me for Al Gore. Al Gore wants to make money and political points off "green politics" and "sustainable development", both of which are obviously insincere bull****.

What I forgot to write: compare the degradation of genetic diversity and quality of plants/animals (and all the processes that lead to it or purport it) to race-mixing, the "cultural melting pot" () and the degradation society. There are so many parallels it hurts.