I really don't consider myself an environmentalist in the most typical sense. I think that people should probably get a little bit closer to natural processes and away from industrial franken-foods.
The push against repairability is pretty bad. The levels of pollution are disheartening to say the least. Two instances in travel stick out to me. Going into/through LA in the mid 00's and finding the smog unbearable and driving on the I-10 through west TX and into Louisianna there was this thick layer of gas fumes that was simply hard to even keep my eyes open.
These are two visible, pungent cases and you don't need to be an environmentalist to feel that this is a problem.
I'm also not inherently against GMO plants/food... I will say that some of these have been problematic, like 20x the histamine response in modern wheat vs. older strains. The increased use of soy and legume proteins that are not complete/good, and the lack of understanding of how problematic they along with the vegan/vegetarian cult-like culture have been. Not to mention the massive negative impact of refined seed oils on human physiology and hormone production.
There are a lot of choices made in the past century or so that have been done out of convenience and at the time ignorance of longer-term impacts. We should largely know better at this point.
I don't like the tendency to lay global climate change to blame for it all, or that humans are even the leading cause of those changes... climate changes and has throughout time. But I can absolutely find that covering a significant portion of the planet in chemical pesticides that kill off insects to the point that it's of serious concern, and making no efforts to move towards something that is sustainable is irresponsible at best.
I can also feel that continuing to come up with more chemical processes to make a better non-stick pan, vs. just learning to clean/maintain steel and cast-iron pans is problematic. Yeah I like amazon... I like that I can get apples year round... I like that I can do a lot of things. But I'm at least trying to make better choices at least part of the time... and advocating for others to do the same.
