It's no longer about conservation, or stewardship, it's about getting people off the land and back into "smart growth" urban hovels.
For further reading, check out U.N. Agenda 21 to see the plan.
If our property rights are stolen, all our rights will have been stolen.
Die U.N.
Yup, I read the UN thing.
Insane.
The more vocal of the enviiros don't seem to actually care about the environment so much as they care about controlling what someone else is doing.
And so long as they themselves are exempted from their own rigid unyielding constraints they would artificially apply to everyone else.
Basically a Kindergarten worldview of "You can't have that because I said not, but I can have it."