I consider myself a pretty green person, but I have use the same language as the parent. The reason is because it prevents somebody from jumping to the anti green approach and calling or assuming you&#x27;re a tree hugger.  This way when you state that you aren&#x27;t a tree hugger but still support a particular argument, it makes them weigh the argument in a reasonable way instead of going on the defensive right away. So it changes the logic from &quot;I&#x27;m not a tree hugger, screw your point and ideals&quot; to &quot;I&#x27;m not a tree hugger but neither is this guy so his point may be reasonable, let me actually listen to this argument and see&quot;. It&#x27;s a smoke rewording to get a person to be more receptive. (Typed on phone, hope it made sense)