Hey waspy it's OK I am by no means a liberal advocate, so puuulease stop with the "hippie tree hugger" comparisons. I like you consider the left wing environmental perspective to contain nothing of worth and is in the main based on emotive and unintelligent ill thought wish lists. I am as disgusted with that as you. That doesn't mean that I have no opinion on environmental issues, or am blind to what we are doing collectively to the planet. And as was pointed out earlier this is primarily a developing world / socialist government legacy issue. As a conservative I am interested in how environmental policy can be practically implemented in order to preserve our current infrastructure and societal development.
If the conservative American has no sensible opinion on this matter be sure the "loony left" will prevail in the absence of comment. None of us want that.....:-)