I spent years dealing with the worst of this scum. Trust me. Don’t ever try attributing logical thoughts or reason to their decisions. They act and wholly function on the emotion of the moment.
You know how one of the first thoughts that comes to mind is ‘clueless hippie’ when thinking of Greenies? There’s a reason for that. And the ones that sit in the Sierra boardrooms/Greenpeace are ‘those guys’ shaved and washed in a business suit that were placed there specifically because communists manipulate them so readily.
Years ago, I had a kid show up at my door asking me to sign a petition to protect a local lake from 'development'. I knew the lake they were talking about and even remembered when it wasn't a lake... it was a just a man made lake.
I told the kid that and he went off like a rocket screaming that I wanted dirty water, dirty air and all the crap they put on people. He really went unhinged.
He didn't scare me in the least, but my teen age daughters were in the house with a bunch of their friends, a couple of who were really big ass 'gear head' type of boys. They heard this guy screaming at me and came outside and asked 'Is this guy bothering you dad?"
You should have seen that eco-winnie scramble away. It was funny as hell. Those boys scared the living 'bio-mass' out of him.