What they're hearing is that for some reason I want to deny the true crises that are out there. When you tell them things are basically getting better, they don't like it. People like you are in the minority, and there's a leadership with a different agenda. They have interests. I don't want to say they are completely being conspiratorial, but the fact is that if there aren't any environmental problems, there is no reason for them to exist.
Environmental groups make a living by scaring people.
Cato looked at the budgets of all these organizations and added them up. Greenpeace's budget alone was larger than all 61 groups combined. The 12 environmental groups spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It's sort of the left-wing equivalent of Jerry Falwell going after gays. Well, they take back with one hand what they give.