I'm all for smart enviromentalism. It's the reason oil companies build ice roads on the tundra.
Same here.. I'm for clean air and stuff. However, we need common sense environmental policies...
What I don't understand is, if people are concerned about the environment, but want to stay away from the rabid environmentalists, why don't they just call themselves conservationalists? That is a term I grew up with, conservation, on a ranch in NM. After having many conversations with people who claimed themselves as environmentalists, and some die hards, most of them I related to conservation issues rather than off the wall environmentalism.