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

In my experience the goal of environmentalism is to prevent any and all progress in the hopes that one day blackberry bushes will takeover everything and humans will all be dead but then we can say there’s balance right before the universe decides to destroy the planet because there’s no such thing as balance