Environmental concerns should be a topic that is dealt by politics.

The state dictates what is allowed and what is forbidden for any legal entity.

For example: It would be meaningless for a local kebab shop to debate whether they should use cucumbers with pesticides or without to protect the bees. If the law would say, all pesticides are forbidden, bee deaths due to pesticides would be gone. Ofc such a decision would have impact on food prices etc. so if asingle kebab shop would do it, they'd just become uncompetitive compared to the rest while making no change in bee deaths. Kind of a virtue signaling shot in the foot.

Same here, the environmental impact is not something that KDE can meaningfully influence with their decision.