I never heard that specifically, which is weird because I was surrounded by similar ideas, but the evangelical position was “God gave the earth to us and told us to multiply, so by not using our resources we would be spitting in god’s face” - this completely ignores the idea that god is supposed to have given us the earth and told us to take care of it, because he’s coming back in X many years, but hey nobody in this circle was known for their logic.