I feel that C- killing ticks with ecologically destructive methods is ridiculously ignorant.

But that doesn't mean that it's "unsettling" that we want to save bees, which is what that statement implies.

I understood them to be saying they were unsettled by the dissonance of it.

I believe that you read it that way. I believe that it's a difficult to understand sentence that doesn't appear to properly articulate the message the writer was attempting to convey and that maybe different word choice would provide greater clarity to their point and further the overall discussion.

TL;dr- we deep enough down the semantics rabbit hole and I'm tapping out. Words, amirite?

U r rite