We are robbing the flora of its food and energy.
Transferring the sun’s heat energy into electrical power for example should be permitted on one condition:
That the energy be used for the electrical needs of all the animal and plant kingdom.
Wide-screen televisions, iPods and electrical toothbrushes will then serve at the pleasure of leopards, badgers, dung beetles and the spotted owl.
yeah - a wide screen TV showing the now extinct "old growth forest" should make 'em feel right at home - that interrupted by a few WalMart commercials showing their signposts to add to their memories of their 'home away from home'
(It was a WalMart sign they were also found to live happly within - wasn't it?)