When the Berlin Wall came down, the communists did this because their plan was to destroy the West from the inside out through environmental law. Still might work with enough useful idiots and the 47% ignorant drone voters.
I mentioned this in a article posted yesterday. When the Soviet Union fell, Gorbachev founded 2 green organizations. So you could see where he was headed. Environmentalists goal is to destroy our capitalist economy as well as eliminate private property rights through environmental laws.