The other side of that coin
Trendy snow sports imperil alpine wildlife - Yahoo! News
I'm sure that many, many people have read the Maddox rant about "extreme" stuff. That is the sentiment I have about this.
People put their idea of fun ahead of any environmental concerns. Then, you get that resentment when people try to protect the environment. Tree-huggers. People really hate tree-huggers.
There's a balance, though. Life on this planet is balanced; not by a circle, but by an intricate, interlocking web of interactions between prey and predator, and between plants eaten and the dispersement of seeds for new plants. One never knows what chain will be broken when one species is threatened by human idiocy.
I'm losing faith in the future of humanity because our arrogance is destroying the world that we rely upon.