The Unabomber had a copy in his cabin. The head of the Sierra Club is also frothing at the mouth against urban sprawl because more space for people means less space for animals. Demanding that the government prevent other citizens from doing what they want, in order that the environmentalists can do what they want, is depicted as something noble, instead of something selfish beyond words. Obviously millions of other people prefer to live in Los Angeles, the very epitome of urban sprawl. They will define for us what is good and what is bad, remaking us in their image.
Urban sprawl is only the latest battleground in that crusade.