A hyper environmentalism that ignores this reality will only be doomed to failure. Sure you can attempt to force us back into the stone age, but your battle is futile.
Economic growth means the development of land and resources.
The challenge is to wisely direct this growth so that the environment is sustained. Hyper-environmentalism fails to focus on the real areas of concern because the adherents are always crying wolf. These false cries minimize the concern for the environment by giving the preception that enviromentalism is reactionary without real substance. Also, many of the hyper-environmentalists are ignorant about the scientific realities concerning the environment. Again they hurt their own cause.