And they've been angry they couldn't use the land this way.

Still despicable of course.

four wheelers get out on the beach and run over birds nests (driving through signs and ropes).

It's been going on for a long time, really. Getting worse in times like these.

.. because of the way we treat this planet.

The damage at JTNP is MEN cutting down trees to get access to off-roading. Short-term wants trumping long-term needs.

70 years on from the end of WW2, and the MEN of the planet are embracing Fascism and Authoritarianism all over the world: Rusher, Italy, Hungary, Turkey, Brazil, the US.

Fear, ignorance and selfishness is so much easier than self-reflection and empathy.

But...yes, ignorance, apathy, greed. Sad.

Probably entropy too...easier to let things go to disorder (caring for things takes energy, input, attention)

The Greeks couldn't keep their Democracy. Nor the French after the Revolution. England created a hybrid that ensures stability. Rusher barely tried.

We're sliding back from Democracy globally, and retreating in fear from the radical change its fulfillment demands: equality for all regardless of ethnicity, station, or sex.

"To the Privileged, Equality looks like Oppression".

Having a society involves concern and effort and occasionally disappointment, having chaos involves nothing.

those who want to take out their frustrations on the environment head in another direction...……..

Coddled, privileged, and resentful of any attempt to install a sense of responsibility or consequences. These are the "casual cool kids" - aka, selfish jerks who can't conceive of a world outside of the reality that exists around them - and that everything around them is as transitory as their whims.

You're bored and not having fun anymore? Walk away and find something else interesting.
Finished with a task? Stop, drop everything where you stood, and just walk away. Someone else will pick it up.
Something in your way? Kick it or throw it out of the way, you can always get another one if it breaks.
Does it belong to someone else? Who cares, they should have taken better care of it.

Assholes like that always been around us, but we used to call them lazy slackers or vandals, and said there was something wrong with them - if they weren't rich. If they were rich, we called them clueless dilatants and kept them away from sharp objects whenever possible.

But that was back in an era when it was actually a special event to go out camping, and it was a quite a bit harder to replace things - or to survive - so actually paying attention to or taking care of things around you was important. Not everything was quickly acquired, disposable, or otherwise available online in multiples at a discount so everyone could get something that used to be thought of as special. Too many people live infantilized in their own worlds, and advertisers and media moguls encourage that.

Haele

or dirt bikes through forest terrorizing both plant and animal life. The Joshua Tree event is especially bad because it's obviously destruction that took some planning since they brought chainsaws. It's sickening.

There are many among us who are totally and completely thoughtless and ignorant - who simply don't give a flying fuck about rules, guidelines or the reasons why we don't vandalize or destroy anything in sight.
They are 'deplorables'.

that had been previously unoccupied by us, pretty much all other large mammals died off in a matter of a few hundred or a thousand years. So we've been doing that kind of thing for the whole history of the species, really.

national treasure and you're only hurting those future generations in your own families from seeing these wonderful treasures and one in million landmarks. Other than this, these folks need to be tracked down and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and volunteers out there to watch these landmarks. Folks have been stepping up to clean up after these scumbags, but they need to be caught (license plates etc. captured) and banned from these national parks that they are trashing and damaging.

That's why I like my dogs best.

and pour straight up, it's called an Asshole. Seems to be popular these days.