Since the 1970s, environmentalists have largely succeeded in convincing legislators to enact extensive environmental regulations. Yet, as environmentalists themselves not only admit but insist, the condition of the environment is worsening, not improving. Clearly, more environmental regulations are not the solution to the environment' s problems. The argument's reasoning is flawed because the argument ['fails to justify its presumption that reducing excessive regulations is more important than preserving the environment', 'presumes, without providing warrant, that only an absence of environmental regulations could prevent environmental degradation', 'attacks the environmentalists themselves instead of their positions', 'fails to consider the possibility that the condition of the environment would have worsened even more without environmental regulations']