And one who disregarded the environment would destroy the value of his own property and expose himself to tort for destroying that of others. Environmentalism, being focused on the greater whole, is a philosophy of Government, which is also all about the greater whole. This was certainly what the Nazis claimed, although many people take exception. On the contrary, to the extent that environmentalism survives at all, it will be through the rediscovery of several property as the most effective means of averting the tragedy of the commons. If you are a Free-Market.
Environmentalism is a concern for minimizing environmental harm.
It is not at all clear that the State is a better steward of nature than the market. For example, the US government is subsidizing uneconomic resource depletion and pollution via farm price supports and corporate welfare for resource-extraction industries. To take an obvious example, if the government were to privatize the Tongass National Forest in Alaska and stop its below-cost timber sales there, logging in the area would become unprofitable and cease. Private owners have an incentive to maximize the value of their property, an incentive that bureaucrats lack. When property rights are clearly delimited and enforced, the profit motive itself causes people to keep the perspective you seek.