Oppositional defiant disorder on a cultural scale. Liberals want to protect animals and shift to use of green energy; therefore the fossil fuel industry must be promoted at all cost (even when they don't want to be, as with Trump forcing obsolete coal plants to remain open) and endangered animals must be killed off.

It often seems like the contemporary American "conservative" feels that in order to oppose progressives they must become regressives.

I've noticed this for MAGA people I've met in real life but for the people actually making decisions, this administration (and their friends/political donors) has been making too much money for basic greed to not also be a huge factor.

Nah, that's just bribes.

Let me rephrase that to provide a different connotation: Liberals want to kill economic progress to save a few animals.

Neither side is honest, it's just a matter of framing and perspective.