Only after authentic relationships are established can we get down to examining where the common ground lies. And that's just the crud at the surface. Environmentalists will finally have to confront and acknowledge the vast amount of class privilege which they are mostly unaware that they carry. Although clearly absurd, it is no accident. Corporations, under the tutelage of public-relations fixers, have learned its easier to have workers fighting their environmental battles for them.
Environmentalists are simply the messengers with a very unpleasant message.
Unfortunately, environmentalists have their own tunnel vision. They continue to perceive forest and mill workers as uncaring about the natural environment, and interchangeable in their values with the corporations which employ them. This is equally absurd. Forest workers are terrified for their futures and it is simply made worse by an environmental movement which utterly fails to communicate with them in ways which speak to their current fears and anxieties. Now imagine a larger leap, where both groups are well enough organized and supported by large enough numbers of active and empowered citizens that we no longer have to meet at a blockade because we have become powerful enough to dismantle the corporations which interfere in the lives of our communities.