We’re all human beings and prone to the same foibles. We are in a shitty year, with a shitty election, with shitty choices. We can continue this stupid intellectual civil wars that the elites have foisted upon us these many years or we can actually decide to do something positive and push them together to make changes.
If you want positive change for the environment, you should reach out to the environmental activists and make common cause with them. This seems one of the issues where headway can actually be made and change can happen which benefits us all (and it might be the most important issue of our day). You seem to be in a position to do so, unlike many of us.
The east ain’t so bad! 
