Let me explain it to you eyeball. What many conservatives don't get is the same thing many liberals also don't get. We don't get why some people are extreme left or extreme right. Let me tell you a little story to illustrate my point. I once asked my uncle Bert (96 years old at the time) why his 100 acre bush was in such great shape, despite the fact that he had 3 huge stacks of cord wood at his rural Ontario property. He said that some idiots would just clear cut their bush land and then they would sell the land rather than wait for 30 years until the trees grew again. He told me that every year he would first take all the fallen timber, then he would cut some 30 year old trees. The following year he had some new 30 year old trees to cut (last years 29 year old trees) and thus he maintained a beautiful forest all his life. We used to hunt there all the time.
My point is, on the far right you have the "greedy unethical capitalist" mindset, the idiot clear-cutters, that would rather get their short-term gain and leave someone else to clean up the mess.
On the far left you have the "whacko enviromentalist" mindset, those who would prefer to leave those in colder climates to freeze to death so they could pat themselves on the back for being a conservationist.
Then there are those on both the left and right who are from the "we can extract energy from the earth while still being responsible" mindset, like my uncle Bert. That seems to me to be the argument TimG was making. You on the other hand...well it's obvious which group you are in.