Environmentalism Is Passing Through a Phase

Before the early 1960s, very few people believed that Earth’s environment needed to be protected.  In fact, the prevalent thinking at the midpoint in the 20th Century was that the environment is here to serve humankind, that anything we did to harness it for our liking was a God-given right.

Right now, it could be said that environmentalism is being “ridiculed” or “violently opposed,” at least in the United States. The majority of voters view people like me and my 2GreenEnergy readers as woke sissies.  The incoming Trump administration and its Project 2025 plan to obliterate as much of the meager progress that this country has made as possible.

I do predict a day when concerns for the environment are “accepted as self-evident,” as they are in places like Europe, but it’s unclear at this point how much damage will have been done, and how much of that damage will prove to be permanent.