Ted Turner, the producer of the show, is an outspoken environmentalist. He also has five kids.
Al Gore, another famous environmentalist, has four kids.
There's a joke about this. A person who wants to live in a cabin in the woods is a naturalist, but a person who wants to build a cabin in the woods is a developer.
I doubt alcohol prohibition would have lasted long if prominent supporters turned out to be heavy drinkers. Likewise, the abolition movement would have been hindered if its leaders turned out to be slave owners. People who don't practice what they preach should not expect to be taken seriously.
The stance the show takes was likely inspired by the scaremongering in Ehrlich's book The Population Bomb. It made many incorrect predictions.
Micheal Crichton wrote an excellent article about how environmentalism is essentially a religion for secular, urban, Western adults. Oddly enough, these are the people who have the least contact with the natural world.
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