"Bad" people can still have good ideas or well-thought arguments. It happens often enough to have become became a clichéd meme.

https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-kno...

> Hey, you probably don't want to sympathize with a guy that everyone around you thinks is irredeemably evil.

> And if you do still want to sympathize with such, maybe examine that motivation for like three seconds.

This sounds like a theat - "hate the person we all hate too, or maybe you yourself are a threat to the group's values, and since we can't actually get to the guy we hate, we'll punish you in his stead for being a sympathizer"

No sympathy for Larry here! Just the point that development is going to coincide with some level of increased pollution. Even an electrified economy with 0 carbon emissions is going to be ecologically devastating after all the mountain top removal mining has gathered the materials to make it possible.