Again your mistakes are adding up. I would leave you alone if you did not keep making them.
First, I am not an environmentalist which is why I use all the tools which were designed for me to use in the way they are supposed to be used. EXCEPT, I drive a hybrid car and I do my part to stay under the emissions cap. Not much else. So how can you compare my standard of living, to anything at all. I am not preaching to save all the animals and save all the trees, I am preaching to leave them alone. Two vastly different points of view. Its you who is doing nothing at all to help stay under the cap. Not even the most insignificantly easy changes to your daily routine, why? Simple, because you believe that there are no repercussions to your actions. Much like a lot of people in this country. Which is the exact opposite of what scientists will tell you about the human impact on the environment.
Second mistake you made. A huge mistake. You said that I want to save "lessor life forms" than my own. Please explain to me what a lessor life form is? In-fact you will be laughed out of the building if you go up to any intelligent being and try to explain what a lessor life form is. What are the standards to be a higher form of life? If its longevity, well we homo sapiens have only been around about 100,000 years. Even roaches have been around longer than that. So we fail at that. Lets see, is it reproductive success? Well thats nice but 6 billion hardly matches up to the trillions and trillions of microscopic organisms that have lived since the dawn of the earth. So we fail at that. The only reason we are here is because of the micro-organisms on our body that feed off of us. We would not even be able to digest food, or dispose of waste let alone survive without them.
On top of that.
Black people have been called lessor forms of life only 80-100 years ago, women were lessor forms of life 200-500 years ago, The non english were lessor forms of life only 150 years ago. Jews have been called lessor forms of life only 65 years ago. Non-catholics were considered lessor forms of life from 1292-1550ad.
So don't spew your crap about lessor forms of life when you yourself were considered a lessor form of life less than a few hundred years ago. Its that backwards thinking that gets us nowhere. If it was up to you, we would destroy every ecosystem that we need to survive because they house "lessor forms of life".
I am not trying to offend you but some things that come out of your keyboard are really self indulgent.
Well it's all a matter of perspective is it not? From the PC point of view I suppose the term might have several meanings that are on the surface demeaning to some. Still other's from the historical perspective it does have a demeaning definition. However, in this case I will try to explain it to you once again so you will understand. Although, I don't hold out hope that you will be able to grasp such a concept as mankind being the superior being on this planet. You see that's the whole basis by which someone who supports a supposed "global view " over their own neighbor's welfare. That mankind is just this little scourge that lives on the earth and is no better than the roaches that should be admired for there longevity and ability to survive millions of years. By that logic though you could compare the nearest rock then to a human being as it has most probably been here longer than mankind has. I find it funny however, that roachkind has never sought to expand beyond the bounds of this planet, mankind has and does in case you have not been paying attention to that. So what is a lessor for of life to me? getting beyond your definition the hidden meanings, it's is any species that does not posess the ability to see beyond the planet they live upon and well at last glance that leaves only one species on this planet "mankind" . Your "save the planet" rantings and feeling sorry for the fact your a human being will not change the fact you are a human being and need to wake up to the fact that , we can be good stewards of this planet and use the resources we have to our benefit without shame in doing so.