Truly skeptical?

Eugene Volokh's mind is vexed by some seemingly crazy theory that it's better for the environment if you drive to the store rather than walk and of the great difficulty in sorting out the trade-offs involved in devising public policy:

This in turn makes me skeptical about demands that we, either individually or through government action, change our lives to improve the environment.

I hope he is not using the term "skeptical" as veiled anti-environmentalism. I hope he is as skeptical of the mirror image:

This in turn makes me skeptical about demands that we, either individually or through government action, do nothing to improve the environment.