Common sense and moderation. That's how I view my "conservation" activities. I believe the earth is subject to Man rather than Man being subject to earth. I don't believe, as does the United Nations, that Man is merely equal to or no "better" than any other animal species. I don't willfully pollute.

I'm not a conspiracy guy by any stretch. I do think there's an undercurrent which to the benefit of the undercurrent is manifested in the form of increasingly radical environmentalism. Please follow this analogy:

Imagine you owned two separate businesses:

1) A large factory in which byproducts of the production process were an array of pollutants. The products you manufacture, however are very profitable for you. You're OK with the pollutants as such. Your factory is located in an area or a country where you are not regulated and no one seems to raise an issue with the pollution your factory creates.

2) You own a mobile home park in which you lease small lots to people who park their own mobile homes there or build small shacks there. Your mobile home park happens to be on a stunningly beautiful parcel of land. You've owned it for generations and have over time and through the present added continually to the size of this park by acquiring more and more land. Your only problem as you see it with this business is the tenants living on your land. They disgust you. In your opinion, they live like animals. In your opinion they're no better than animals. They're so far removed from "your world" that you've grown to hate them. Long ago, you'd have to admit you "needed" them and the profit you gained from them to build your empire; however, for quite some time, if they were gone and off your land, you'd now view that as a benefit rather than a liability. Your hatred for them has become so strong over time and through generations that you find yourself thinking over time "if I had my way and I could get away with it, I'd pay someone to exterminate "those people" like the vermin I think they are. Given that there are laws, strict and burdensome in your opinion against seizing your land back from them and making them go away, the best you can do is create a relentless ad campaign with the purpose of getting them to live in a way that impacts your land as minimally as possible and also to do whatever you can to discourage them from reproducing.

Weird analogies? I think shaming humans into feeling guilty about being carbon emitters with every breath they exhale and thereby feeling guilty or contributing to a "problem" by simply being alive is coming from somewhere. If you think you own the world, the masses are just squatters and despicable ones at that.

ChrisL