I read the article The Idols Of Environmentalism in a Harper's Magazine that I just bought because of another article on Giuliani. This article is very interesting, it talks about the decisions we make as "environmentalists" and how we hide behind our science and language to paint a picture of the perfect earth where we give our world exactly the minimum it needs to survive. Contrast this with a true harmony with the earth, not one that we are at odds with, but one that we have a reverence for, simply because they are. It's quite a powerful read and I suggest you give it some time in a quite space.

From the article:

Environmental destruction proceeds apace in spite of all the 501(c)(3) organizations with their memberships in the millions, the poll results, and the martyrs perched high in the branches of sequoias or shot dead in the Amazon. This is so not because of a power that we must resist. It is because we are weak and fearful. Only a weak and fearful society could invest so much desperate energy in protecting activities that are the equivalent of suicide.