Rush can be incredible naive when it comes to environmental issues. It can be pretty frustrating at times when he goes off on his anti-environment(alist) tirades- a bit too reactionary for my taste.
For more reasons than you probably intended. He not only under-estimates the problems we face, he really doesn't get the depth of corruption involved either.
For example, it has been obvious that the greenie lawyers have been trying to kill barge traffic on the Mississippi for years. This carp makes a handy vehicle while Lloyd Bensten has organized a consortium to invest ag dollars in South America and is funding green groups with the intent of harming domestic ag production.