I thought part of being conservative meant conserving our natural resources

[Ardent15]

Oh, I forgot, environmentalism is a fraud committed by Al Gore and teh liburl media.

[LaurenG]

1. I used to think that too. Especially since my conservative parents taught that to me, but

the word conservative has morphed into a description for people who can't face reality. I used to categorize them into conservatives and neo cons but they are really the same thing anymore.

[texastoast]

2. More Orwellian framing

And "conservatives" are not conservative at all. MY parents were conservative--waste not, want not. I don't see the SUV drivers having a clue about what that entails.

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/05/bohemian-grove200905

[billyoc]

3. It did, sort of, a long time ago.

Teddy Roosevelt, or something.

[Uncle Joe]

4. The two major and one minor wing of conservatism have no motivation to conserve.

1. The "money changer" capitalists; believing that money is their God and he/she who dies with the most toys wins.

2. The Religious literalists believing we've been kicked out of the Garden of Eden and the Earth serves no purpose other than being an object for our subjugation, while also believing the end of humanity can't occur unless it's God's will. I believe they have separated themselves from nature, while man-made churches may be a spiritual place to them, a mountain range, forest, desert, lake, river or ocean, not so much.

3. The racists; hoping to some extent as Charles Manson did for a race war, to them conserving natural resources serves to benefit everyone and in the long run will reduce the chance of strife; racial or otherwise.

I also believe all of those groups to some extent believe in the concept of U.S. exceptionalism and empire versus democratic republic.