Jew, Republican, Environmentalist

I thought this was an interesting op-ed, especially the part about being a Republican environmentalist:

Which leads me to the final issue that makes me an increasingly strange republican: I'm sort of an environmentalist. Not a real activist, just a sympathizer. I watch helplessly as our national vistas are slowly destroyed. In 1993, Rush Limbaugh disingenuously remarked on his radio show that he didn't understand what all the fuss is about - he had gazed down out his airplane window at a landscape of endless forests on a cross-country flight. It's hard to believe that he couldn't distinguish between lush ancient old growth forests lost forever, and newer woods with little biodiversity. How can all the sequoias and redwoods that have been chopped down ever be replaced? They can't, and 98% have been felled, with some refugees surviving in national forests and parks. Meanwhile throughout North America, enormous ancient trees continue to be chopped down for...toilet paper.

It seems to me there's a new environmental movement in the far Right, based on traditional Christian values, that takes stewardship of the Earth as our collective reponsibility. Could tree-huggers and Left Behinders actually see eye-to-eye on some issue of importance? God forbid!