"environmental" groups really hate man. What most see as progress, they see as a raping of Mother Earth. To them, they'd just as soon we not be here. Their views, for better or worse, are the foundation for much of what bubbles up out of the environmental agenda. It's not unlike liberal's disdain for the USA. Rather than a beacon on the hill to which all should aspire, they believe we are nothing more than evil and who should be punished for our imperialist attitude by dismantling everything the country has built.