In British Columbia, the Forest Alliance has developed 21 Principles of Sustainable Forestry and these have been adopted by all the major forestry companies. British Columbia even has a law on the books which requires that every area that is harvested must be re-planted. The environmentalist movement often reminds me of Marxism. Like your average communist, if you question an environmentalist you will usually find a Medievalist underneath. While communists believe this has taken humanity away from producing goods that directly benefit the producer, environmentalists believe that humanity is no longer a member of nature.
Some environmentalists even believe that humanity is a cancer.
Nature, say many environmentalists, has a value outside of humanity. It is something to be cherished and protected. Because the environment has a value by its very nature, when humanity intrudes we are destroying that value. We, say the environmentalist movement, are pillagers of Gaia. Humanity, formally a part of nature, is now a rot, an infestation, because we change the environment instead of worshipping it for its own sake.