This may shock you, but most people aren't terribly fucking concerned about poisoning an ocean or stressing out a landfill.
Most people are mouth breathing idiots is not the retort you think it is.
This reminds me when people say the most qualified should be hired, and I suggest to do blind hiring. Unsurprisingly they agree to this, right up until the moment it's revealed blind hiring increases the diversity of a workplace.
If this were true, there wouldn't be such a push to hire based on skin color.
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. -- Robert Heller