[article] The Culture War Tearing American Environmentalism Apart | The Atlantic

These titles are not great, but to the extent I buy into them at all, the "Cautious Greens" are full of shit and don't have an ethical or data-driven leg to stand on.

There's a whole bunch of different movements that got crammed into "environmentalism", and the it's kind of confused as a result. GMOs being another stark example, where anti-science people highly oppose it, conservationists suspect it, and people concerned with adapting to or fighting climate change see nothing but potential.