One possible approach might be to draw an analogy to, for example, popular mainstream liberal animal welfare movements and how they treat "ugly" species. Biologists who study wetlands will waste no time telling you that we shouldn't be draining them and that frogs and snakes are as worth preserving as any other wildlife, but they struggle to get funding and support because a lot of mainstream animal rights groups are filled to the brim with libs who don't consider the issue beyond "save cute cats and dogs, swamp animals icky and bad"
Nothing inherently wrong with a scientist character being right just because :so-true: epic bacon types tend to be insufferable about science. Einstein was an outspoken socialist. Salk refused to patent his vaccine because he cared more about saving lives than profits.
Ahh, so it probably needs a third character: the lib NGO rep to be on the same side as the "this meaty gravity well is altogether unprofitable" neocon.
One possible approach might be to draw an analogy to, for example, popular mainstream liberal animal welfare movements and how they treat "ugly" species. Biologists who study wetlands will waste no time telling you that we shouldn't be draining them and that frogs and snakes are as worth preserving as any other wildlife, but they struggle to get funding and support because a lot of mainstream animal rights groups are filled to the brim with libs who don't consider the issue beyond "save cute cats and dogs, swamp animals icky and bad"
Nothing inherently wrong with a scientist character being right just because :so-true: epic bacon types tend to be insufferable about science. Einstein was an outspoken socialist. Salk refused to patent his vaccine because he cared more about saving lives than profits.
Ahh, so it probably needs a third character: the lib NGO rep to be on the same side as the "this meaty gravity well is altogether unprofitable" neocon.