“...take a basically pessimistic view of human nature”
Isn’t that the view that eugenists, environmentalists, and animal right’s activists take? The view that the world would be better off without people?
They feel there are way too many people, and from their personal perspective living in big polluted cities they are 100% correct.
The term environmentalist used to mean conservative. The original Sierra Club was a Republican social club. Environmentalism was hijacked by the communists as another disguise for their evil swill.