I want to be careful how I word this.
But, some liberal types, have been happy to see factories and industrial facilities shutting down. Among their reasons are that such facilities produce pollution.
They ignore the fact that great strides have been made, to reduce pollution from these facilities.
So it stands to reason, that with the liberal eco nazi focus on global warming and greenhouse gas and all that, that even the much cleaner industrial facilities of today, would still be objectionable to them, regardless of whatever economic benefit comes from them.
Liberals are Luddites and hate machinery.