I am a tree hugger myself. In fact I was quite the active supporter of Earth Day since it's creation until it became hijacked by the climate scare people and they decided that putting emphasis on things we could do now, and the many topics about pollution and waste that we used to talk about. Recycling in general was a product of a lot of the early initiatives when we focused on fixing things rather than pushing a one topic religion as all encompassing and most important. Oh, and many of us understood science and actually applied it to what our ideas and thinking were about.

Those days were hijacked just prior to the Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth propaganda piece.