I think you need to get some data and factor out population density before you can causally relate environmentalism to politics. People who live in rural environment don’t see as much need to worry about the environment as people who live in cities. It just so happens that today, rural people vote Republican and city people vote Democrat. That didn’t used to be the case.
Though, sure, if you call the Sierra Club “environmentalist”, then environmentalism is politically polarized today. I don’t call them environmentalists anymore; I call them a zombie organization that has been parasitized by an entirely different political organization. I’ve been a member for decades, and they completely stopped caring about the environment during the Trump presidency. As in, I did not get one single letter from them in those years that was aimed at helping the environment. Lots on global warming, but none of that was backed up by science. (I’m not saying global warming isn’t real; I’m saying the issues the Sierra Club was raising had no science behind them, like “global warming is killing off the redwoods”.)
I think you need to get some data and factor out population density before you can causally relate environmentalism to politics. People who live in rural environment don’t see as much need to worry about the environment as people who live in cities. It just so happens that today, rural people vote Republican and city people vote Democrat. That didn’t used to be the case.
Though, sure, if you call the Sierra Club “environmentalist”, then environmentalism is politically polarized today. I don’t call them environmentalists anymore; I call them a zombie organization that has been parasitized by an entirely different political organization. I’ve been a member for decades, and they completely stopped caring about the environment during the Trump presidency. As in, I did not get one single letter from them in those years that was aimed at helping the environment. Lots on global warming, but none of that was backed up by science. (I’m not saying global warming isn’t real; I’m saying the issues the Sierra Club was raising had no science behind them, like “global warming is killing off the redwoods”.)