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> the problem is that you are looking at it with postmodern materialist glasses.
To me it rather sounds like he thinks about and empathize with the people whose life can be elevated from the struggle for subsistence to a level where they could afford of taking care of the needs of mind and soul instead just the body.
First world environmentalism is very selfish and egotistic in ways. Beside they just do it because they saw some one sided argument (propaganda really) which made them angry and they propelled by their own emotions which they care of but not other people's life, they also can form any opinion very easily since their livelihood and that elevated quality of life they enjoy already isn't in danger.
I should read the whole thread tho, I lost track somewhere.