For this I am sorry. She’s going to get right very soon. I suspect as her needs change she will flip. She has common sense and a good head, it’s just that the best private law schools preach this stuff and that culture is tough to shake. At least at first.
Don’t sweat it. It was an education. I grew up with parents who were ‘honest’ liberals, in that they believed in the power of government to do good. Apollo, WWII, all of that.
You take environmentalists at face value, and you give them a plan that would revolutionize how all beverages would be made in the US - saving billions of gallons of water, hundreds of millions of gallons of gas, and reducing waste in the 1000’s of tons.
Scared the crap out of them. You find out they aren’t there to protect the environment. They are there to erect barriers to entry that government can’t. Just don’t want new business. That simple.
You can’t get that kind of education at a B-school.