Environmentalism is increasingly antireligious and antihuman. I, myself, I blushingly admit, briefly joined the Sierra Club and some other conservation groups back in the early eighties. I discontinued after about a year of reading their journals convinced me that their agendas included not just the preservation of the natural world but the wholesale endorsement of a social and political agenda which had little or nothing to do with the natural world at all.
I need to throw an extra large log on the fire this evening and ponder this matter further.
Amusing that during the eight days, a total of 44 candles are burned, but exhalation from each one of the people gathered around the menorah puts the equivalent of 533 candles of CO2 into the air over those same eight days.