But by word and deed, they demonstrate their contempt for human life. Housing, commerce, and jobs are sacrificed to spotted owls and snail darters. As a consequence, man is to be prohibited from using nature for his own ends. Since nature supposedly has value and goodness in itself, any human action which changes the environment is necessarily branded as immoral. The environmentalists' concept of intrinsic value is nothing but the desire to destroy human values.
Values exist in a hierarchy, some being pursued only because they are means to other, higher ends.
This implies the existence of an ultimate end that grounds the hierarchy. Without an ultimate goal or end, there can be no lesser goals or means. . . . The expressed goal of environmentalism is to prevent man from changing his environment, from intruding on nature. That is why environmentalism is fundamentally anti-man. Only by intrusion can man avoid pestilence and famine.