I am rather low on the eco scale. Pollution including CO2 IMO should be heavily taxed as a negative externality. But, things like land preservation is really just about land use with leaving it alone as one option. Extinction is another meh issue. Make an effort to preserve DNA, but trying to save animals that compete with humans is rarely going to work well.

So, recycling for example needs to be a net gain when adjusting for externality's not just a pointless feel good measure. Eco homes are another pointless waste. Want to save the environment live in a condo.

Basically, you can do what you want with your land, but don't hurt other peoples air, water, etc.

PS: Needless to say, rarely do I find people with similar viewpoints.

Please, realise there is no "your land" island on which people live apart from the ecosytem. Personally, I feel that living on "your" land is fine, it's that market mechanism forcing the extraction of value from it that scares the shit out of me.

I am all for curbing polution and even city's have ecosystems, but they look nothing like untamed land. Saying, you can't turn your property into a parking lot because reasons is rarely well thought out.

Yes, but, like their co-religionists, they seem to hive out and make this same objection! :-)