I'm sympathetic but uninformed here. And I think NEPA (CEQA, etc) conversations and debates are real.
One thing I didn't get to in this post (one of many, I suppose) was that I think a huge difference in the green and abundance types is that they look at NIMBY through different lenses. Abundance people tend to start with urban housing, and how it's almost always bad at the local level (e.g. Jerusalem Demsas's book), but green people look at clean energy developments and think that it actually requires lots of community engagement and payoffs to make it work. And both might be right.
I'm sympathetic but uninformed here. And I think NEPA (CEQA, etc) conversations and debates are real.
One thing I didn't get to in this post (one of many, I suppose) was that I think a huge difference in the green and abundance types is that they look at NIMBY through different lenses. Abundance people tend to start with urban housing, and how it's almost always bad at the local level (e.g. Jerusalem Demsas's book), but green people look at clean energy developments and think that it actually requires lots of community engagement and payoffs to make it work. And both might be right.