Having walked a lot of miles in National Forests I can tell you the “Leave no trace behind” concept is hard for some to grasp.
Some will carry a plastic water bottle a few miles into the woods - drink it - and then just drop it beside the trail.
And don’t get me started on steel cans and glass bottles in fire pits.
I’m no libby tree hugger but damn folks carry out your trash.
It’s kind of interesting when you long-distance hike. You’ll find an inner circle that’s about as far in as lazy folks will go, and the trash extends from there to the road. You hardly need a map to know that you’re coming close to a trailhead. Fortunately, these folks generally don’t get too far into the back country, as their laziness to carry trash out generally extends to their laziness to walk too far.
That kind of mentality has pretty much destroyed the Appalachian Trail. As most of it is within the reaches of roads and towns, it’s become one long trash line from Georgia to Maine.
This pushes one of my buttons.
Many of us are of an environmental-preservation mindset - but we are not "Environmentalists" as defined by society at large. Reduce pollution? carry out your trash? preserve wilderness? minimal impact? green power? heck yeah! To the detriment of humanity? in accordance with Leftist principles? no way!
We need a term which captures the essence of "right-wing environmentalism" without invoking watermelons.
That’s why our subways in NYC are crawling with rats.
People who eat & drink on trains & buses should CARRY OUT THEIR TRASH.
In my experience, libby tree-huggers are the problem.
Why aren’t the libby tree huggers volunteering and cleaning it up?
I thought that is what they were for! lol