What you have to understand is that most "Greenies" really don't give a damn about the environment. It's simply an issue they can use and abuse to try to tear the economy down to reach their real objective --- Marxism.
What is everyone's first experience in life? Infancy = getting free food, love, diaper change, fuss and momma comes running. Marxism = socialism = liberalism = infancy = something for nothing = a violation of the first law of thermodynamics. There is no such thing as a free lunch but these greenies/liberals/marxists will not, CANNOT understand it : an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Take a deeper look at them : what percentage of them are leeches on society, infantile types that never grew up? TAKING is their primary mission in life, whereas hard working republicans are the GIVERS that support them. America's intestines are FULL of these leeches, time to get de-wormed and DUMP them....and move on the creative solutions to all the problems facing us.