I’d say “fuck all the people who are harming nature” is black-red/rakdos’s view of white-green/selesnya. The “fuck X” attitude implies a certain passion that pure black would call wasted motion. Black is about power. It’s not adversarial per se, just mercenary/agentic. Meanwhile the judginess towards others is an admixture of white. Green is about appreciating what is, not endorsing or holding on to it.
Black’s view of green is “careless idiots, easy to take advantage of if you catch them by surprise”. When black meets green, black notices how the commune’s rules would allow someone to scam them of all their cash and how the charms they’re wearing cost 10 times less to produce than what they paid for it.
Black-red/Rakdos’ view of green is “tree huggers, weirdly in love with nature rather than everything else you can care about”. When rakdos meets green they’re inspired to throw a party in the woods, concluding it’s kinda lame without a lightshow or a proper toilet, and leaving tons of garbage when they return home.
Black’s view of white-green/selesnya is “people who don’t seem to grasp the tragedy of the commons who can get obnoxiously intrusive about it. Sure nature can be nice but it’s not worth wasting that much political capital on.” When black meets selesnya, it tries to find an angle by which selesnya can give them more power. Maybe a ecological development grant that has shoddy selection criteria or a lopsided political deal.
Meanwhile black-green/golgari is “It is natural for people to be selfish. Everyone chooses themselves eventually, that’s an evolutionary given. I will make selfish choices and appreciate the world, as any sane person would”. It views selesnya as a grift, green as passive, black as self-absorbed, and rakdos as irrational.
I would say ecofascism is white-green-black/Abzan. The hard agency of black, the sense of communal approach of white, and the appreciation of nature of green, but lacking the academic rigor of blue or the wild passion of red.
That sounds like something a cross between learned helplessness and madman theory.
The madman theory angle is “If I don’t respond well to threats of negative outcomes, people (including myself) have no reason to threaten me”. The learned helplessness angle is “I’ve never been able to get good sets of tasks and threats, and trying to figure something out usually leads to more punishment, so why put in any effort?”
Combine the two and you get “Tasks with risks of negative outcomes? Ugh, no.”
With learned helplessness, the standard mechanism for (re)learning agency is being guided through a productive sequence by someone who can ensure the negative outcomes don’t happen, getting more and more control over the sequence each time until you can do it on your own, then adapting it to more and more environments.
Avoiding tasks with possible negative outcomes isn’t really feasible, so getting hands-on help with handling threat of negative consequences seems useful. Probably from a mental coach or psychologist.
The app doesn’t help people who struggle with setting reasonable tasks with reasonable rewards and punishments. Akrasia is an umbrella term for “something somewhere in the chain to actually getting to do things is stopping the process”, so it makes sense that one person’s “solution” to akrasia isn’t going to work for a lot of people.
I think it’s healthy to see these kinds of posts as procedural inspiration. As a reader it’s not about finding something that works for you, it’s about analysing the technique someone used to iterate on their first hint of a good idea until it became something that thoroughly helped them.