"Do not tell me that this is about jobs and the economy".
"We are stewards of Mother Earth and must make sure she is safe and can take care of, and provide for, our children and future generations."

Wow... aren't you special.  To suggest only indians care about mother earth....seems like  racist thing thing to me.  I believe all of us care about "mother earth".  The difference is that most of us have to make a living as we can't rely on handouts.  So yes---trade-offs have to be made.

Perhaps you could take less from the gov't, they could reduce our taxes and we could keep more of what we make.  Then  we could build less industry and hurt mother nature less.

Not willing to do that I bet.  Another hypocrite-- this time disguised as a concerned indian;