>Perhaps I shouldn't have said "think are important" but instead said something like, "are emblematic of some problem but are actually insignificant to that problem".

No, I got your meaning! My goal was to create a good emblem. ;)

  >It's basically, "I'm not jealous, I actually just care about the environment!"

Of course people are jealous. Should they not be? Jealousy is an adaptation to dysfunctional resource hoarding in social groups.

That doesn't invalidate the fact that wealth inequality by itself is also (oddly) bad for the environment.

I highly recommend going back up and watching Donella Meadowa original talk on this. She explains it much better than I could! Cheers and salutations