My take on the irrationality and frank stupidity of these people is this:
The best thing for the environment is WEALTH CREATION.
The more wealth there is, the cleaner the environment will be. If people have enough money to buy food, clothes, and housing, they have enough money to not care if some of it is diverted to ensuring clean industry and buying more environmentally friendly energy.
When there is poverty, and you can’t get enough to eat, you will try to burn green wood, trash, or even dried animal dung, and if you have to throw a 55 gallon drum of toxic waste into a body of water used as a drinking reservoir just to buy a potato, you will do it.
It is no surprise that the biggest environmental disasters were to be found behind the Iron Curtain under Communist rule.
Make "Wherever-You-Live-in-the-World" GREAT.
Or as Voltaire said, "Cultivate your garden".