While I feel the destruction of our natural resources and wildlife needs to stop, what I view as unnecessary, another views as livelihood without a second thought to it's ramifications.
here's one way to try and justify it, with the rate we are polluting our oceans, we are doing them a favor, lame I know, but a thought.
I get tempted at times to change my mindset and way of living and move to a wilderness area and live off the land, using no fossil fuels to pollute the environment, no using grocery stores that waste tons of animal and vegetable matter daily for my convenience, no using any products that the creation of said product created harmful waste for the world I live in (pretty much everything in my house), but then again I am one person in a world that is on the verge of becoming quickly over populated. Besides, with the pollution around, I doubt I could fish and not get some kind of toxin in my system.
I had a few hours the other day when our power was out. I sat by my window for some breeze (88 at the time) with a candle and a sleeping bag and it gave me time to reflect upon our daily existence in it's simplest form without any electricity and any of the things that we rely on that use it and it was kinda sobering.