Conservation movement hijacked

I’ve been conserving all my life. I consume as little energy as possible, use things up, recycle and never litter. I love nature and support the great outdoors. Most people I know act the same way.
You’d think conservation would be the foundation of the ‘sustainability’ movement, but hijackers came aboard and forced a wacky left turn: consumers are wasteful drones of the evil business empire; Americans are most responsible for damaging the Earth; big government programs are the solution. Then the council of Hollywood bishops ordained Internet inventor and climatology expert, Al Gore, as their leader.
Like the ‘peace’ movement of the 1970s, the ‘sustainability’ and 'climate change' tags have that oxymoronic deceptiveness about them. They even hijacked green – the color of Christmas, money and envy - so the masses could follow more easily.
If man is having a negative impact on the planet, it can’t compare to the forces of sunspots, volcanoes and forest fires. Man’s biggest impact stems from an exploding worldwide population, but you don’t hear environmentalists say much about controlling births or accelerating deaths.
In nature, when a population consumes its resources, it dies or invades another territory. But environmental extremists pick and choose their laws of nature, and survival of the fittest isn’t a rule they like. They blame America for ravaging natural resources and labor overseas, but ignore that we aid the needy and maintain world order.
Instead of using up the earth’s ready supply of fossil fuels, the movement leaders want to force ‘renewable’ sources on us, decades before their time. If we want to tax and spend our way to sustaining Mother Earth, we should build nuclear plants and accelerate the exploration of space.
Maybe ‘conservation’ just sounds too similar to ‘conservative’.