when did environmentalism become so political?  alright /pol/. i want to talk about my personal life and i have honest questions. i was born in 1991. during the late 1990s and early 2000s, i had all sorts of books and educational cd roms. from these books and cd roms, i learned about things like global warming, the ozone layer, oil spills, endangered species, deforestation, stuff like that. there wasn't really anything political about it. ever since the mid-2000s, environmentalism has changed. when i was 13, my stepfather angrily told me that environmentalists are nazis, which was something that i never even thought of before that point. as i have grown older, more and more people have been associating environmentalism with misandry, animal rights, misanthropy, luddism, paganism, communism, anti-white racism, anti-christianity al gore and other stuff that i never even considered back in 1997-2000. a lot of people online have even told me that the whole concept of global warming began with the film an inconvenient truth. this feels like gaslighting because i distinctly remember reading about global warming in my books before an inconvenient truth was even announced. like ... what is going on? when did environmentalism get interwoven with all of these human-centric political concepts that have nothing to do with nature at all? pic related was one of my books.
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