This is a terrible take. Any kind of agriculture changes the local environment. Boats on a river, big buildings, wind mills, all of it.
I assume in good faith that your value is pristine nature but it’s a fallacy.
I assume in good faith that your value is pristine nature but it’s a fallacy.
To summarize: yikes.
This sentence alone proves your entire reply unsound. You have assumed something which is obviously irrelevant given not only the context of this conversation but even the tone and content of that comment which you supposedly critique. Then you go on to be condescending.
You can convince people of your honesty and good faith by acting honestly and in good faith, not by trying to reframe your hurried comments ex post facto to retrofit some desired message from what is obviously a bad take.
I don't. It's by now clear they don't think they were doing that either. But your assumption colored your entire reply as a response to an argument that no one was making.