Sighswoon and the environment

Something I was just pondering -

How callous do you have to be to be someone who claims to love the earth (evidenced by her constantly talking about outside, enjoying Hawaii, posting things like waterfalls) and even profit off of your perceived connection with the planet (which she tries to present as deeper than anyone else’s) but then not give a shit about environmental destruction?

The trump admin has been systematically trying to remove protections from all of our public lands, parks, and wilderness areas. Earlier this week Mike Lee snuck a poison pill into a bipartisan wildfire prevention package that strips the roadless rule protection from millions of acres. For anyone unaware, the roadless rule protects wilderness areas that aren’t designated as national parks from being developed on. There’s a whole host of reasons why road development is horrible for wilderness areas, water sources and countless species, but of course the administration is trying to disinform people that it’s for “wildfire prevention”.

Likewise, the department of interior just released another sneaky and horrific attack today on our public lands (link to substack here because this writer does a way better job explaining it than I ever could). I recommend reading the whole thing, and please remember to leave a public comment once the comment period for opposition opens on Monday! https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/trump-administration-moves-to-close

Anyways. Sorry this is long winded. I think I’ve just been trying to articulate (to myself) why I have particular unease about her and her actions. Obviously the tech billionaires, the pop and logging lobbyists, they have the most culpability in the utter pillaging of nature. But I feel like she exemplifies this abhorrent view that so long as she can insulate herself via her wealth, hoard natural resources and untouched land like the other rich people while everything else burns… while claiming to love nature, to commune with nature.. it’s such a jarring combination of callousness, cruelty and cognitive dissonance.

And i imagine that she would accuse me of being woke and projecting that she has negative intent and is a user. But like all of the other topics we discuss here I just find it SO disingenuous and dystopian that she profits off of her self-mythologizing as a nature lover and nature seeker but then actually simply does. not. care. (Or even worse, actively supports the destruction of nature via the people she aligns with and the policy they platform! And her love of AI 😵‍💫). It’s so gross to me.