There's nothing more anti-natalist than shutting down your countries infrastructure. That's exactly what the baby boomers did. They fucking rotted out their own country because the idea of factories and making shit offended their sensibilities. Boomers have been do-nothing, play-pretend faggots for the past 40 years. Doing exactly this type of shit.
Some of this is a chicken or the egg, I knew some older folks when they talked about the intensive china-tier pollution in and around cities back then done by our industrial base and pre-catalytic converter cars which propped up initial interests groups in scaling it back which coincided with multiple good and bad faith organizations that caused the mass outsourcing. For the owners the over encompassing regulations and laws for the pollution output seriously hampered profit margins and ability to compete with the global markets in the long term(especially since there no longer any incentives from the government since ww2 was long done), though a good chunk of the initial regulations were common-sense shit then preferential stuff like factories not outputting at certain times so nearby residencies wouldn't have to experience smells/pollution as much during the normal day-to-day hours, to finally the all familiar modern hyper corruption to justify an evergrowing bureaucracy of government employees(and NGOs which will be covered in the next paragraph) with inflated wages, not to mention the rise of unions and subsequent corruption heavily soured the flexibility of the American domestic market for would be industrialists.
The biggest problem of interest groups in America is that their propped up by money and people who are essentially employed to solve/campaign a specific problem raised up by the funds of the initial concerned citizenry or donors, this being a problem is when it essentially gets solved with the introduction of catalytic converters for cars and reasonable regulations for factories and zoning laws are accomplished their already this snowball effect of an ongoing organization of employed people so the logical next step every time is to change the goalpost ad infinitum to perpetually justify its own existence, basically the cobra effect, it's also the reason why most things suck ass currently.
Finally, though babyboomers through their big dick massive influential voting demographic were a major reason half of these came to be, it wasn't entirely their fault since most of the aforementioned were already in motion before they even got out of their diapers and they specifically grew up in the times of the cold war, encompassing pollution in cities and the general hysteria lumped at the feet of nuclear energy was mostly from the fears of the nuclear holocaust, local pollution, long term waste management for used rods and later on the three mile incident along with chernobyl bolstered the already established concerns about it, the major error being that they were a young generation given too much power without much wisdom so soon and made rash decisions that got cemented by the previously explained factors. They had optimism in the incorrect direction, in that humans always find alternatives and solutions to bridge the gap of problems but their decision was to shy away from the sortable technical problems of industry, infrastructure, nuclear power to find hope in magical fairy dust technology that sounded less dangerous and difficult for their sheltered existence.
I'm a bit of an optimist, theres already several solutions to most of our modern problems of pollution and negative impact on the environment, from bundting with a hoe to reverse desertification, using Crispr to engineer organisms to repair the coral reefs, bubbling technology to float out silt build-up from dams, the problem lies in institutionalized demagoguery in cynical acquisitions of power and taxpayer money for personal gain.