Is the goal of environmentalism to maximize the health of the environment, or to maximize the health of the environment experienced by the average person?

(I think both are valid goals, but they can lead to very different conclusions)

Is the goal of environmentalism to maximize the health of the environment, or to maximize the health of the environment experienced by the average person?

(I think both are valid goals, but they can lead to very different conclusions)

https://x.com/TheGattoniCelli/status/1796949964804747335

Dense housing for thee, but not for me ty. I prefer not to have to see others, Calhoun's rat city experiments make me suspicious of density. 

Prevailing environmentalist theory is that the world is overcrowded. This world has very little incentive to explore, except online, a world in which everything is owned already