The Environment is too Important to Leave to Environmentalist

I saw this post on the guardian website, in order to apply for the job, besides preparing the latest curriculum vitae, you will need to write up about  about 50 words why "the environment is too important to leave to the environmentalist". I was curious and here was what I did; I copied, pasted the question on google [Which I would think every other people that were considering that post and the questions would do the same.].

And, came across an interesting blog on guardian by Will Hutton in 2009. I briefly concluded he was in reference to Gidden books, G20 and the politician work should be in line in order to come to a consensus compromise a solution to maintain the balance of the environment and human consumption (my fav words). 

What I may answer:

1. The environment does not only belongs to the environmentalist. Environmentalist are just in a position to voice what hurts the earth and the environment, but can never be the solution or the cause of reducing the impact of what hurts or destruct the environment. They are like the fire alarm when there is fire, not the firemen, which in my opinion the firemen are the politicians, civil society and policy makers.
2. Environmentalist  can be overwhelm with emotional feelings as  they see and assess things differently.  They see the values of the environment is deteriorating and with the exponential graph growth of human population is the bigger factor to the cause of environmental value deterioration. And, thats what they may see is not in line with the country economics. As in today, the remaining large forest areas are managed by the developing or third world countries. Timbers export and land clearing for agriculture are part of the plan to develop the countries. Hence, juggling between conserving the forest area for environment and harvesting for economics at times are not in the hands of the environmentalist to the make decision. 

I am not saying environmentalist are not important, is just making the whole "earth saving" decision just do not lies in one party only.

 -Just a thought-