I'd suggest you take your own advice.  Watching the trees has told me that things are messed up.  
It's convienece and perhaps fulfilling to sling insults but you're on the wrong side of this argument.  This is a global initiative.  My guess is you may be on the gawd squad and got your botanical training at the ABT.  Metaphor and fairy tales can't compete with actual scientific research when it comes to policy and civic responsibility.