Beautifully put...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "The Democrats have become subsumed in this carbon orthodoxy. The only issue is carbon and what that's done is it's forced them to do something that you should never do if you're an environmentalist, which is to commoditize and quantify everything. So everything is measured by its carbon footprint, how many tons of carbon it produces and you're putting everything in that kind of box of being able to quantify it and explain its value by a numerically. And the reason that we protect the environment is just the opposite of that.
The reason that we protect the environment is because there's a spiritual connection. There's a love that we have. I got in the environment because I wanted this connection to the fishes and the birds and the wildlife and the whales...I understand that the way God talks to human beings through many vectors, through each other, through organized religion, through the great prophets, through the wise people of the great books of those religion. But nowhere with the kind of detail and texture and grace and joy as through creation. And when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is what our own potential is and duties are as human beings...
It's not about quantifying stuff, that's what the devil does, he quantifies everything and that is what he wants us doing. Put a number on it. And the reason we're preserving these things is because we love our children. Nature enriches us, enriches us economically and spiritually and culturally and historically. It connects us to those 10,000 generations of human beings that were here before there were laptops. And it connects us to the most important spiritual lesson all of the organized religions that we know of today. The central revelation of every one of those religions always occurred in the wilderness...
God talks to us through the fishes, the birds, the leaves, they're all words from our creator. And that is why we preserve nature. It's not because of the quantity of carbon."