Many of them are idiots. Indoctrinated by government agents (AKA Teachers), the media and pop culture to believe things that are simply untrue. They’ve uncritically soaked it in and are just regurgitating the pap they’ve been fed. Anything that’s touted as “Green” is automatically good no matter how stupid it is.

I recently went round and round with a local elected official over the mandatory recycling program here. We pay a large fee for the privilege of recycling trash that takes much more energy and costs considerably more than just getting new stuff. It’s highly inefficient and costly but it makes her feel better. If they just took the fees they charge to force us into this they could open up several new landfills and we wouldn’t have to do this crap. The idea doing a cost benefit analysis was like a heresy to her.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.