I care about the "environment" because I care about maintaining my quality of life. I like "bike paths" because I think it's retarded to send billions of dollars to dangerous theocrats who want me dead, in exchange for air pollution. I care about endangered species because it would be nice to eat a blue crab, or maybe some tuna, in a decade. Environmentalists are just like everyone else; we look out for our interests. That's not arrogance.
