It’s nothing new to see Big Green figures deploring the fact that people exist. Back in 1974, the elite Club of Rome published “Mankind at the Turning Point” with its infamous motto, “The Earth has a cancer and the cancer is man.”

Today it has become routine for some well-funded Big Green group to block life-saving projects supposedly to save some allegedly threatened creature. In a previous column, I detailed a particularly outrageous example: a campaign that stopped an approved life-saving gravel road between two remote Alaska towns because it might annoy some geese.