Most environmental groups have been co-opted and weaponized by the deep state a long time ago. They show up to protest what the deep state orders them to protest.

If you think about it, the global warming (now climate change, soon to be "the weather") movement is the most anti-environment environmental movement ever. In Britain, they are opening up renewable wood-burning plants to reduce their emissions. They are also pushing for the reclaiming of wilderness so crops can be grown for use as renewable fuels (you either do that or you starve a portion of your population by using existing farmland, right now they want to do both). I remember when environmentalists wanted forests and wilderness preserved as habitat for wild animals. Whatever the new wave of environmentalists is, they sure don't care about what we tend to think of as the environment. I wonder when we start switching back to whale oil for our lubricant and indoor lighting needs instead of using that polluting crude oil.

Bonus fact: We sometimes joke that they ban plastic straws but switch to plastic cups instead. Well, in my areas, just that happened. Wendy's used to have their medium cups be made of waxxed paper. The last time I was there, a few months ago, those are plastic now. But the straws have been government mandated paper for several years. The waxxed paper cups worked perfectly fine. I had no issues with them. But the paper straws are horrible. Basically unusable. I think a lot of this pseudo-environmental garbage they push on us is more to show their power over us by making our lives worse than anything else.