Problem is, the first 2 reccomendations make sense, and should be adopted by any wise steward of this earth God has given us. But to couch it all in carbob footprint-climate change malarky makes me want to buy a Hummer and leave it idling in a jungle, er, rainforest just out of spite!
You bet they do. They're old-school conservationism, a body of practical application that has been subsumed by a nonsensical popular culture that flatters itself it is "saving the planet." Here's a clue to the difference - you insulate your house to save your money, not perpetuate the wellbeing of the Snail Darter.
The term "conservation" has gone out of style, containing as it does the root "conserve" and being altogether too reminiscent of the horrifying "conservative." That doesn't mean its copy can't be stolen, though.
The whole theme is starting to sound a bit shaky, actually. I recall a conversation I had with an ecofanatic the other day that ended with him saying "well, at least we're doing the right thing, even if it's for the wrong reason." But that "right thing" does a little subsuming of its own to the point of expensive, insupportable, and counterproductive economic and political actions that do nothing but make their proponents feel good about themselves.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.