The problem I have with environmentalists is not that they want to save the environment, but that many of them don't. Many fo them are simply full of hate at big business and the American way, and so they are simply anti- everything, whether or not their views are supported by science and common sense. The whole forest thing really gets me. Remember those gigantic forest fires that his California and Colorado just about every year? Those would just be run of the mill, healthy fires that are part of nature's cycle and allow new trees room to grow and get old trees and overgrown underbrush out of the way, but because environmentalists are so obstructive, fires in these areas have been put out for years before they got very big. This created way too much biological material in these forests so that now when fires come, not only do they ahve so much fuel that they grow too big to stop very quickly, but they burn MUCH hotter than a natural forest fire normally should. Instead of opening up pine cones and allowing seeds to spread like a natural fire is supposed to do, these fires in improperly maintained forests burn the pine cones to ashes, and no forest will regrow without human help.

Check out this article on how environmentalists are destroying small saw mills.