[ExI] "Up against the warming zealots"...hmmm

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Lets give a cynical reply

Ecologically minded or "green" folks are of a particular memeset that
has links (not always but quite commonly) to the left, anarchy,
PETA, greenpeace, spirituality, wicca, shamanism, etc. This demographic
is quite visible in the Netherlands and has come under close scrutiny
after an extremist animal rights activist shot the to-be-next-prime minster
in the head. Google "volkert van der graaf" en "pim fortuyn" for details.

These are people traditionally left out in the cold by big business. They
have absolutely no empathy, and lots of resentment for big business - and
often academic society. They have some sort of vague love for Mother
Earth, more as a metaphor for simple biological lifestyle, and even though
in any other context their arguments would have merit, they don't in a world
with 6+ billion humans. Their resentment of modern industrial society
is incompatible with current global populations.

If you come across as some sort of creature of academia, hightech
nerdlyness or the company scene, you will instantly be targetted for
suspicion; I have experienced that problem several times when discussing
transhumanism in my peer group.

This democraphic scene will become more militant as government and the
corporate sector will increase in relevance, and as their effective income (more
than the average composed of welfare as many of them simply do not have
an alternative) decreases.

By understanding the greens and by stressing green solutions, it would be
fairly easy to sway ecologically minded groups in favor of transhumanism.