Yeah, well that does look bad. The thing is one area where the GOP is out of touch with the people they represent is the environment. Me, I love progress. I think buildings and highways and parking lots are beautiful things, but the vast majority of voters think swamps/wetlands are a good things instead of breeding grounds for snakes and other preaditors. So they want government oversight and limits on expantion.
I was an environmentalist before the libs took over that word. Now maybe I can be a conservationist, but I'm not sure that word is still politically neutral.
Buildings and highways and other human constructions do have a place in this world, but they can be awfully destructive, too. I guess you're too young to know about the famous London fogs, the Steel City (Pittsburgh) fogs, or even the year that the Ohio river caught on fire.
And there are a lot of good reasons for keeping those snakes and predators around - they do a good job of keeping rats and other vile creatures under control.
This is truly a marvelous planet, and human beings are just a small part of it. We don't need to trash it; we can respect it and take care of it. That isn't hard to do for most of us in the developed countries - we can dispose of waste responsibly - adequate sewer systems; landfills instead of just throwing trash around (yes, some things can be recycled economically); we can build buildings and parking lots where they won't interfere with natural water flow; we can use clean energy (yes, fossil fuels can be clean); we can stop disposing of waste by dumping it in lakes and oceans.
But please don't get all environmental concerns mixed up with the global warming hoax. Global warming issues are about politics and power and not about the environment. Light bulbs, car engines, and oil pipelines have nothing to do with saving the environment. They're about financing the leftist cause.