Less burdensome to the planet? It sounds like you've been smoking the democRAT crack!
COnservatives conserve. We want sustainable living, we don’t want to burn up the planet. We were put here to be in dominion over every living thing, but not to destroy it.
Imagine someone buys the property next to you, and then mines it for topsoil and cordwood. Then they dig out the rocks for people to use for walls.
Now you have a pit next to your house, so they hire it out for trash.
Do you see: That would be living in a “burdensome way”. To be less burdensome to the planet is to live in a way that improves things rather than destroys them.
In Scouts, we had a rule — always leave the campsite better than you found it. That’s a conservative principle.
I refuse to change my language because some liberals try to take it and use it for their own bizarre theories.