https://news.google.com/search?q=environmentalist+landfills&...
Here's one from 3 days ago.
Garbage Lasagna’: Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says
Don't gaslight me and tell me environmentalists applaud all solutions to environmental issues equally. They have their own solutions, and activists often force things like recycling at all costs, even though it means shipping it across the world on polluting boats and having some other country dump it in their rivers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/climate/landfills-methane...
Perhaps whatever you have in mind has to do with people's desire to keep more garbage out of the landfill in the first place? I don't know.
> They have their own solutions, and activists often force things like recycling at all costs, even though it means shipping it across the world on polluting boats and having some other country dump it in their rivers.
I don't know what that's referring to but where I live, the vast majority of recycling does not leave the province. So I can't really empathize with the example, I'm aware of the trope though. Perhaps this is one of the things that's much different in the US and less so in other places.
That's a side effect of (way too) lax regulations and the externalities of disposing of plastics not being paid for!
Germany and a few other EU countries for example force any introducer of "recyclable" packaging to pay into a system to fund recycling stream collection, sorting and disposals ("Grüner Punkt" [1]). Yes, it's not perfect, way too much of our plastics waste still is exported to poor countries, but the ban on that is already law that will come into force in a few years [2].
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCner_Punkt
[2] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/plastikmuell-eu-einigt-sic...
I guess I consider myself an environmentalist, in that it's a relatively high priority to me to avoid causing unnecessary environmental destruction. I regularly take some effort to dispose of hazardous waste appropriately, etc, but I normally don't go around announcing my environmental priorities. It's not that I don't care, it's just that talking about it is usually not much fun, and is unlikely to help anything.
I think my attitude on the matter is pretty common in my area.
These are not bad people, but they don't know what they're talking about enough to form their own opinions, but they don't know that.
These types of people exist, and in worryingly large numbers.
I can't find anything about "organic" gas.
There might be some traces of it in the Internet archive.
[edit] there are traces here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210209184343/http://www.greenp...
It was prominently on their home page at some point, but I could not find it. I should have saved it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Federal_Republic_of_Ge...
You're perhaps talking about the downstream effects of sunsetting nuclear energy but even since then, the ratio of renewable energy has only increased. So what do you mean exactly?
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
They are also against fracking, which indirectly leads to more coal burning. Which is worse.
> [...] the ratio of renewable energy has only increased. So what do you mean exactly?
I would look at the CO2 emitted per Joule or something like that. Ie something that puts nuclear and coal into different baskets.
> Is that actually true?
> If you mean "over the last 20 years", then no, they weren't even a governing party between 2005 and 2021.
You don't have to be in cabinet to influence other parties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens#Electio...
You don't even have to be in parliament to influence other parties.
As a rule we try to avoid putting landfills anywhere near someone's backyard, so it's not your usual hot topic for the zoning committee.
Are many ... not? Seems like a weird complaint, I haven't encountered an "environmentalist" (whatever that even is) that is against landfills in general or the engineering of it. I'd rather we didn't produce as much garbage as we are and I hate that our city makes me wrap my garbage in more garbage otherwise they won't pick it up. But I still find the engineering impressive.